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Installing cairo-package fails / solaris

3 messages · Reinhard Sy, Brian Ripley

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First, it is 'Cairo' (R is case sensitive), and this is wrong list 
(see the posting guide).

But in any case we can't help you as what you show is far from 
complete and this is not an R issue. Usually there are multiple 
versions of such libraries on a Solaris system: the problem is most 
likely the library paths.  Please ask your local Solaris help for 
assistance in sorting out what is a local problem.

(FWIW I can install package Cairo on Solaris if I use GNU make, an 
undeclared dependence.  But I wonder why you would want to do this 
when R's own graphics devices do almost everything Cairo does, often 
better since we use pango for font selection.)
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Reinhard Sy wrote:

            

  
    
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If you read my email carefully then: if I wrote Cairo I mean the R 
Package Cairo else I mean the Library cairo from carographics.org!


I need to use Cairo because we are creating a huge amount  of graphics 
in BATCH mode for reporting purpose. I think pango is not the solution I 
need for this but I could be wrong.
The matter to upgrade from R 2.7 to 2.12 on our production system is we 
need  more/other Database packages that we used before.


Reinhard



Am 10.02.2011 13:59, schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: