R help - Jan 2009 - Error installing ggobi in R, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Hi,

I'm newish to R and Ubuntu, and I've getting this error when I'm
trying
to install ggobi in R.  Any suggestions?

DD

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 > install.packages("rggobi")
Warning in install.packages("rggobi") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using 
'/home/dheerajchand/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/rggobi_2.1.10.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 133907 bytes (130 Kb)
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 130 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'rggobi' ...
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GGOBI... configure: error: Package requirements (ggobi >= 
2.1.6) were not met:

Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'libggobi', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GGOBI_CFLAGS
and GGOBI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rggobi'
** Removing
'/home/dheerajchand/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7/rggobi'

The downloaded packages are in
    /tmp/RtmpgoMBkw/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
In install.packages("rggobi") :
  installation of package 'rggobi' had non-zero exit status
 > q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n

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On 18 January 2009 at 15:19, Dirty D wrote:
| I'm newish to R and Ubuntu, and I've getting this error when I'm
trying
| to install ggobi in R.  Any suggestions?

Yes.  Just install the pre-built binary from Ubuntu via

    $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rggobi

This will also install Ggobi itself as well as the RGtk2 bindings.

Hth,  Dirk

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