I am running R 2.2.1 on a University-supported linux installation based on Redhat EL3. I am sorry that it did not occur to me to mention this before; I updated R very recently, with the most recent version available for EL3 at http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/redhat/el3/. Looking at the gridBase documentation, I find that 2.2.1 is not in fact the most recent version. I have now spent hours trying to install 2.3. No available binary rpms seem to work. If I try the source code, configure crashes with a complaint that I do not have X, which is false (see below). Do I need a new version of Linux? Any help is appreciated. Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------------------------
./configure
(lots of positive stuff) checking for X... no configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonathan Dushoff <dushoff at eno.princeton.edu> To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Where is package gridBase? Trying to follow the instructions on the page http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/12/17153.html (to make a figure with an inset), I typed
install.packages("gridBase", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
and was rejected. no package 'gridBase' at the repositories in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, I went to the FAQ at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Add_002don-packages-from-CRAN, and was informed that gridBase was an add-on package available from CRAN. I also tried installing other packages using exactly the same command.
install.packages("TeachingDemos", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
These packages were apparently found: trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/TeachingDemos_1.2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 66472 bytes opened URL (and so on) I would appreciate any insight that anyone might have. Jonathan