Dear all, I tried to install rgl package on my linux machine fc5, I got an error. Here I run R as user, $ R
> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.at.r-project.org/")) > install.packages("rgl", > lib="/home/subianto/local/lib/R/library/site-packages", dependencies=TRUE) trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgl_0.67-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 567592 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 554Kb * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries , headers checking for libpng-config... yes configure: using libpng-config configure: using libpng dynamic linkage configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -I/usr/lib/R/include -I -DHAVE_PNG_H -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c api.cpp -o api.o Disposable.hpp:13: warning: 'struct IDisposeListener' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor types.h:77: warning: 'class DestroyHandler' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor gui.hpp:56: warning: 'class gui::WindowImpl' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor gui.hpp:90: warning: 'class gui::GUIFactory' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor pixmap.h:39: warning: 'class PixmapFormat' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor <snip> Disposable.hpp:13: warning: 'struct IDisposeListener' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor gui.hpp:56: warning: 'class gui::WindowImpl' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor gui.hpp:90: warning: 'class gui::GUIFactory' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o rgl.so api.o Background.o BBoxDeco.o Color.o device.o devicemanager.o Disposable.o FaceSet.o fps.o geom.o gl2ps.o glgui.o gui.o Light.o LineSet.o LineStripSet.o Material.o math.o osxgui.o osxlib.o par3d.o pixmap.o PointSet.o PrimitiveSet.o QuadSet.o RenderContext.o render.o rglview.o scene.o select.o Shape.o SphereMesh.o SphereSet.o SpriteSet.o String.o Surface.o TextSet.o Texture.o TriangleSet.o types.o Viewpoint.o win32gui.o win32lib.o x11gui.o x11lib.o -L -lX11 -lXext -lGL -lGLU -L/usr/lib -lpng12 -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [rgl.so] Error 1 chmod: cannot access `/home/subianto/local/lib/R/library/site-packages/rgl/libs/*': No such file or directory ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl' ** Removing '/home/subianto/local/lib/R/library/site-packages/rgl' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpH3o1qG/downloaded_packages Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("rgl", lib = "/home/subianto/local/lib/R/library/site-packages", 2: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) > I think the error about missing devel-libraries on my fc5 but I do not know which libraries are. I apologize for my poor linux knowledge and expertise. Thank you very much. Best, Muhammad Subianto > version _ platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 3.1 year 2006 month 06 day 01 svn rev 38247 language R version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) > $ uname -r 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html