Dear R People: I am installing R from source into Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. (R-2.9.1) When I do the configure, I get the following: R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: . Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 Obj-C compiler: Interfaces supported: External libraries: readline Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java Recommended packages: yes My concern is with the Interfaces supported. I should have Tcltk and png there. How do I get those, please? I installed tclx8.4 and put it into the Path. thanks, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
Erin -
Packages like tk8.4 are basically runtime packages. They
don't provide the necessary header files that are required to
compile programs which will use those runtime packages. I
suspect you'll need to install tcl8.4-dev and tk8.4-dev in order
to build those capabilities into R. I think you'll also need
libxmu-headers, libxt-dev and libx11-dev for X11. Basically,
whenever a compilation fails, it means you're missing the -dev
package.
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spector at stat.berkeley.edu
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I am installing R from source into Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. (R-2.9.1)
>
> When I do the configure, I get the following:
> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Source directory: .
> Installation directory: /usr/local
>
> C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2
> Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
>
> C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2
> Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
> Obj-C compiler:
>
> Interfaces supported:
> External libraries: readline
> Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
> Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>
> Recommended packages: yes
>
>
> My concern is with the Interfaces supported. I should have Tcltk and png
there.
>
> How do I get those, please?
>
> I installed tclx8.4 and put it into the Path.
>
> thanks,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
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Erin, On 8 August 2009 at 13:25, Erin Hodgess wrote: | Dear R People: | | I am installing R from source into Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. (R-2.9.1) | | When I do the configure, I get the following: We need _reproducible examples_. Unless you show us how you called configure, we cannot really help you. | R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu | | Source directory: . | Installation directory: /usr/local | | C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 | Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 | | C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 | Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 | Obj-C compiler: | | Interfaces supported: | External libraries: readline | Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS | Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java | | Recommended packages: yes | | | My concern is with the Interfaces supported. I should have Tcltk and png there. | | How do I get those, please? | | I installed tclx8.4 and put it into the Path. Consider visiting http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu for directions about installing a _precompiled version that includes tcl/tk and png_. This will also get you upgrades to future versions, all at zero effort and zero cost. Works for me -- I use these on machines at work and home. Still, if you'd rather insist on doing it yourself, please read any one of these - the R Admin / Installation manual - the r-help archives - the r-sig-debian archives for Debian/Ubuntu questions. This has been asked -- and answered -- a (rather large) number of times over. Lastly, the diff.gz to the Debian / Ubuntu package is also public and shows you exactly how we call configure to provide the Debian -- and CRAN-mirrored Ubuntu -- packages. Hth, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.