[R] installing "rgl" package

Duncan Murdoch
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:10:54 -0000

On 23/11/2017 6:05 PM, Santosh wrote:
> Hi Rxperts,
> I am trying to install 'rgl' package in Ubuntu.. Would highly
appreciate
> your assistance .. I tried several leads available on various discussion
> fora and nothing helped so far.

Your message is really hard to follow, since you posted in HTML.  You
need the OpenGL development packages.  On Ubuntu, that probably means
MesaGL, but I don't know the names of the development packages.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>
> * installing *source* package ?rgl? ...checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none
needed
> checking for libpng-config... yes
> configure: using libpng-config
> configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
> checking for X... libraries , headers
> checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
> checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
> checking for GL/gl.h... yes
> checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
> checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
> checking for GL/glu.h... yes
> checking for glEnd in -lGL... noconfigure: error: missing required
> library GLERROR: configuration failed for package ?rgl?* removing
> ?/data/R/lib/rgl?Warning in install.packages :
>    installation of package ?rgl? had non-zero exit status
>
> Checking the system dependencies based on README..
>
> system('dpkg -l |grep  libgl1')ii  libgl1-mesa-dev
>    10.1.3-0ubuntu0.6                       amd64        free
> implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX development files
>
>> system('dpkg -l |grep  libglu1')ii  libglu1-mesa:amd64
9.0.0-2                                 amd64        Mesa OpenGL utility library
(GLU)
> ii  libglu1-mesa-dev                      9.0.0-2
>             amd64        Mesa OpenGL utility library -- development
> files
>
>> system('dpkg -l |grep  libpng')ii  libpng12-0:amd64
1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2                 amd64        PNG library - runtime
> ii  libpng12-dev                          1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2
>             amd64        PNG library - development
>
> I also tried installing .. using the following command..
> install.packages("rgl",dep=T,
> INSTALL_opts="--no-multiarch",
> configure.args=c(rgl="--with-gl-includes=/usr/include/GL"))
>
> Thanks so much for your help!
> Santosh
>
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