[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-06 Thread emil
>Just about that, yes, you can use Sage just as a distribution of scientific >software. On the commanline, just enter $ sage -sh and you are inside the so >called sage environment. There, you can start any of it's programs, and in >your case, you can start R and install the R commander. Via this e

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-06 Thread emil
> > > Hm, does R need the Xorg - dev headers to work properly? Thats the > > Well, I don't know why, but they apparently think so.  It's in the > documentation that this (or something like it) should be in to build > these things.  I really need to ask their devel list someday... > > - kcrisman >

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-05 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 5, 9:15 am, emil wrote: > > The tests for that are optional - we can't assume every system with > > Sage has the right stuff, unfortunately.  Why the VM image *and* > > Ubuntu binaries don't have it is a mystery; my guess is that they are > > compiled on some virtual machine on some other

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-05 Thread emil
> > The tests for that are optional - we can't assume every system with > Sage has the right stuff, unfortunately.  Why the VM image *and* > Ubuntu binaries don't have it is a mystery; my guess is that they are > compiled on some virtual machine on some other machine, and that the > virtual machin

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-04 Thread kcrisman
> OK, > i compiled sage from scratch without any  special options and plotting > works > r.capabilities() gives the same results as the separate R build. > That solves the problem for now - thanks. Great! > > What I can't understand is why this is not working in the precompiled > ubuntu binaries

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-04 Thread emil
> > > The main problem is that Puppy Linux or whatever must have compiled > > > Sage without the right headers available.  It's entirely mysterious to > > > us exactly why R requires certain developer tools installed to give > > > you X11.  But it doesn't, and so in the spkg-install we check for a

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2011-01-02 Thread emil
On Dec 29 2010, 6:49 pm, emil wrote: > On 29 Dez., 17:33, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > The main problem is that Puppy Linux or whatever must have compiled > > Sage without the right headers available.  It's entirely mysterious to > > us exactly why R requires certain developer tools installed to g

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2010-12-29 Thread emil
On 29 Dez., 17:33, kcrisman wrote: > The main problem is that Puppy Linux or whatever must have compiled > Sage without the right headers available.  It's entirely mysterious to > us exactly why R requires certain developer tools installed to give > you X11.  But it doesn't, and so in the spkg-i

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2010-12-29 Thread kcrisman
The main problem is that Puppy Linux or whatever must have compiled Sage without the right headers available. It's entirely mysterious to us exactly why R requires certain developer tools installed to give you X11. But it doesn't, and so in the spkg-install we check for as many of these things as

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2010-12-29 Thread emil
On 29 Dez., 12:28, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:25:11 AM UTC+1, emil wrote: > > > I got feedback from people who are very interested in the sage package > > but mainly want to use some components in a "classical" way (e.g. > > Rcmdr with R) - Do you think this is po

[sage-support] Re: how to enable plotting in R

2010-12-29 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:25:11 AM UTC+1, emil wrote: > > > I got feedback from people who are very interested in the sage package > but mainly want to use some components in a "classical" way (e.g. > Rcmdr with R) - Do you think this is possible at all? Just about that, yes, you c