"Graphics history" in UNIX
At 15:41 08/07/2010, Scotti Roberto wrote:
Hello. I understand that, to build from source, you need to have all sources (in the right place and with the right names, and so on), but your sentence,
To build from source you need to have development files installed.
Roberto, My experience as a very naive Linux user with mostly Windows experience is that once you have the initial setup right subsequent installation of packages from source works very smoothly. I was quite nervous about the initial setup but the instructions on the welcome pages on CRAN were very helpful. I think when you look back in a few months time you will, like me, wonder why you were concerned in the first place. If despite that you run into problems I have always found the experts on this list very helpful.
stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building from source using R in Kubuntu? I shifted over from MS only recently. In Windows I used to easily download packages and use them. Now, every time I downloaded a new piece, I had the impression that building from source was necessary. Am I wrong? Many thanks Roberto Il 24/06/2010 01:36, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
Hello On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Scotti Roberto <roberto.scotti at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for caring. With this last fix playwith() could be an optimal substitution of the Windows "register" graphics tool. Unfortunately the practical side is quite hard and, up now, unsuccessful. It takes hours to understand that 'pkg-config' is a system library, not an R-package, that installed GTK components are insufficient, you have to guess which one of the 33 to-be-installed libgtk2 libraries are required and then finally compilation an linkage start progressing when you discover that 'cairoDevice()', this time an R component (??), has to be installed by its self but ... here I am stuck, see error below: two members of DevDesc appear as missing!! Do you have any suggestion on how to proceed?
To build from source you need to have development files installed. On Debian-based distros, you will mostly look for *-dev packages. For example, you will probably need to install r-base-dev. For playwith, I expect that you will need at least libgtk2.0-dev. As for cairoDevice [1], you will need libcairo2-dev, I think. Then follow the error messages for potential missing development files. Regards Liviu [1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/cairoDevice/index.html
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