[R] installing "rgl" package

Ista Zahn
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:58:55 -0000

On Nov 23, 2017 6:16 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com> wrote:

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.


Fortunately there is no need to memorize them:

apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl

should be all you need.


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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>
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