Hi, On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05 AM, ogbos okike <ogbos.ok...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Duncan, > Thanks for your time. > Using ./configure as specified in the installation manual, I attempted to > install R-2.13.0 but it reported an error message: > > checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... no > checking X11/Intrinsic.h usability... no > checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... no > checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... no > configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not > available > > Could you please advise further. I am attempting this for the first time on > my laptop (ubuntu os).
Can you just follow the instructions here: http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ And use the apt-get mechanism to install R instead of compiling it yourself? I'm guessing it'd make your life a bit easier. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.