R help - Oct 2007 - Cannot install 'rgl'

Hello I have the following problem:

I am trying to install the 'rgl' package by:

sudo R
install.packages('rgl',dependencies=TRUE)


I get the following message

checking for X... no
configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'



How can I resolve this issue

I run Ubuntu 7.10


Thank you in advance
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--elijah


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Metaxab wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:45:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Metaxab <metaxab at gmail.com>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R]  Cannot install 'rgl'
> 
>
> Hello I have the following problem:
>
> I am trying to install the 'rgl' package by:
>
> sudo R
> install.packages('rgl',dependencies=TRUE)
>
>
> I get the following message
>
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
>
>
>
> How can I resolve this issue
>
> I run Ubuntu 7.10
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>

On 29 October 2007 at 05:45, Metaxab wrote:
| 
| Hello I have the following problem:
| 
| I am trying to install the 'rgl' package by:
| 
| sudo R
| install.packages('rgl',dependencies=TRUE)
| 
| 
| I get the following message
| 
| checking for X... no
| configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
| ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'

Your R is broken -- no X11.  Maybe you compiled it yourself without having
the proper development packages for X11.

| ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
| 
| 
| 
| How can I resolve this issue
| 
| I run Ubuntu 7.10

Do this:

1)  a) Install either the r-base package that Ubuntu has for you (as it will
        have working X11(, or

    b) Install the 'backported' R for Ubuntu available on every CRAN
mirror


2)  a) In the Ubuntu package for rgl:    
		sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl
       or

    b) Install at least the _build-dependencies_ for it
		sudo apt-get install build-dep r-cran-rgl
       and then proceed to your manual install.


You may want to subscribe to r-sig-debian to ask Debian / Ubuntu questions
there.

Dirk

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