R SIG Fedora - May 2008 - Problems with installing the rgl package

Dear All,

I am having the following problem while trying to install the rgl
package on R 2.7.0:

configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpRLEDta/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl
contriburl,  :
  installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status

Any ideas?

Thanks in advnace,

Paul

> Dear All,
> 
> I am having the following problem while trying to install the rgl
> package on R 2.7.0:
> 
> configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/RtmpRLEDta/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l,
contriburl > contriburl,  :
>   installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advnace,
> 
> Paul
Paul,

You don't indicate which version of Fedora/RH you are on, but you need 
to install the libGLU headers, which for F9 are in:

   mesa-libGLU-devel-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386.rpm

So, as root, you'll likely need:

   yum install mesa-libGLU-devel

Once that is installed, you should be good to go unless you are also 
missing other dependencies as well.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz