Hey Ista, I am just learning a bit of installation. Trying my hands on various things I see on the web. Some proved helpful whereas I am not sure of others. I didn't compile R from source. Just downloaded R-2.10.0 and tried to install. The error message I referred to was there when I did $./configure. And somebody suggested I should do $./configure --with-x=no to avoid the error. Other things I installed were in a bid to solve the problem of x11() not being available (following what others who said they have encountered the same problem suggested). But as I said , none helped.
I decided to downloaded another version R-2.11.1 and installed as well. It was indicated that the version supports X11. This has solved my problem at least for now. Thanks for your concern Ogbos On 7 October 2010 15:51, Ista Zahn <iz...@psych.rochester.edu> wrote: > HI, > It's not clear to me exactly what you did. > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:49 AM, ogbos okike <ogbos.ok...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I have just installed a new version of R (Version R-2.11.0) and did > install > > other packages such as raster with ease. However, I could not start the > > plotting device x11(). I remembered that somewhere at the stage of > > installation, an error occurred : 'configure: error: --with-x=yes > (default) > > and X11 headers/libs are not available' > > This makes it sound like you compiled R from source yourself, > > > I tried avoiding this error by using ./configure --with-x=no (i.e. > changing > > the yes to know). Well, the error disappeared but after the installation, > I > > could not start x11(). > > without X11 support. > > > > > I have tried to install alien and attempted to use it to install > java1.4.rpm > > Why? Most linux distributions (you never say which one you are using. > We need this information in order to help you.) have a standard way to > install java... > > > I have also installed r-base-dev , build-dep r-base and libX11-dev > > But the problem remains. > > > > This sounds like you installed R using your package manager. So which is > it? > > -Ista > > > I will glad if somebody can bail me out. > > Best > > Ogbos > > > > ** > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Ista Zahn > Graduate student > University of Rochester > Department of Clinical and Social Psychology > http://yourpsyche.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
