Carole:
If you really need to install R from source you probably need to do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
before you do your ./configure and make.
If you just want to install the binary, you could try
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
(Well, that seems to work for me! It's kind of a magic incantation from
my pov; don't really know what I'm doing. :-) )
HTH
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 26/08/11 00:34, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
On 08/25/2011 08:27 AM, carol white wrote:
Hello,
TO update R under Ubuntu on my macchine, I downloaded R-2.13.1. When
running ./configure, I got the following error message:
checking for X... no
configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
But I could use X11() function in R-2-10. So where does the problem
come from?
Cheers,
Carol
It looks like you're compiling from source and your system does not
have the header files required installed. Did you compile your
previous version or use a pre-built (binary) package? A binary
package would not require the headers.
I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what the name of packages you need
for the headers. Typically the packages have the devel versions
separate, you you need those.
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