R help - Apr 2007 - Problem installing gnomeGUI in Ubuntu: "HAVE_ORBIT" was never defined

I am trying to install the gnomeGUI package
I have tried from within R (R was started with: sudo R) with:
install.package()
and from console with:
sudo R CMD INSTALL /download/gnomeGUI_2.3.0-3.tar.gz
In both cases I get the exact same errors:

checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
configure: error: conditional "HAVE_ORBIT" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gnomeGUI'

Found the following in earlier message in R-help list:

 From B R Tura
"So I think gnomeGUI not instalable in R now..."

Response from Prof Ripley:
"This is almost entirely misinformation. gnomeGUI is a package on CRAN 
(and has been for a couple of years), and can be installed just like any
other package. Like several others, it requires R to have been 
configured with --enable-R-shlib."

Any help would be much appreciated.

My guess is that you have Gnome >=2.0, while the gnomeGUI only works with
the ancient Gnome 1.4, although I am not that familiar with the package.

Michael

On 4/9/07, fsando <fsando@fs-analyse.dk> wrote:
>
> I am trying to install the gnomeGUI package
> I have tried from within R (R was started with: sudo R) with:
> install.package()
> and from console with:
> sudo R CMD INSTALL /download/gnomeGUI_2.3.0-3.tar.gz
> In both cases I get the exact same errors:
>
> checking for gnome-config... no
> checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
> configure: error: conditional "HAVE_ORBIT" was never defined.
> Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gnomeGUI'
>
> Found the following in earlier message in R-help list:
>
> From B R Tura
> "So I think gnomeGUI not instalable in R now..."
>
> Response from Prof Ripley:
> "This is almost entirely misinformation. gnomeGUI is a package on CRAN
> (and has been for a couple of years), and can be installed just like any
> other package. Like several others, it requires R to have been
> configured with --enable-R-shlib."
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
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