installing FastRWeb
Hi, I don't know what FastRWeb does, but it appears to me that you need the developmental files for Cairo installed. I don't use ubuntu, but perhaps installing cairo-dev might help? HTH, Ranjan On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:24:04 -0500 financial engineer
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hi,
I am working on Ubuntu and tried to install FastRWeb, but am getting the following error for installation of cairo.h.
install.packages("FastRWeb",dep=TRUE)
Installing package(s) into ?/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ?Cairo?
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 79 Kb
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/FastRWeb_1.0-0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 71072 bytes (69 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 69 Kb
* installing *source* package ?Cairo? ...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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 ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no
configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it.
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
checking cairo.h usability... no
checking cairo.h presence... no
checking for cairo.h... no
configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?Cairo?
* removing ?/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo?
ERROR: dependency ?Cairo? is not available for package ?FastRWeb?
* removing ?/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/FastRWeb?
The downloaded packages are in
?/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages?
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) :
installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) :
installation of package 'FastRWeb' had non-zero exit status
so, I tried to install Cairo, but I get the following error:
install.packages("Cairo")
Installing package(s) into ?/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 79 Kb
* installing *source* package ?Cairo? ...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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 ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no
configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it.
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
checking cairo.h usability... no
checking cairo.h presence... no
checking for cairo.h... no
configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?Cairo?
* removing ?/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo?
The downloaded packages are in
?/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages?
Warning message:
In install.packages("Cairo") :
installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
Can you pls. let me know how I can fix this.....thx!
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