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package ca/rgl for ubuntu?

3 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Manderscheid Katharina

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hi,
for some unknown reason i cannot install the package ca in R running in a ubuntu mint system. i keep getting the following error message:

configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?rgl?
* removing ?/home/kat/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/rgl?
ERROR: dependency ?rgl? is not available for package ?ca?
* removing ?/home/kat/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/ca?

Die heruntergeladenen Pakete sind in 
	?/tmp/Rtmp7r6s3h/downloaded_packages?
Warnmeldungen:
1: In install.packages("ca") :
  Installation des Pakets 'rgl' hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
2: In install.packages("ca") :
  Installation des Pakets 'ca' hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0

thanks a lot for your help!
katharina
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On 06/12/2010 1:45 PM, Manderscheid Katharina wrote:
You need the development package for OpenGL or MesaGL to install rgl.  I 
don't know Ubuntu so I don't know how to ask for it, but that's what you 
want (unless you choose to install a binary; I believe some are 
available for Ubuntu).

Duncan Murdoch
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thanks a lot, duncan for that super-fast reply and help!
i could install rgl via synaptic and afterwards ca in R directly. and it works! :-)

have a nice evening, kat