Thanks for your reply. I used the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base
----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> To: carol white <wht_...@yahoo.com> Cc: "r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [R] X11 problem On 08/25/2011 08:27 AM, carol white wrote: > Hello, > TO update R under Ubuntu on my macchine, I downloaded R-2.13.1. When running > ./configure, I got the following error message: > > checking for X... no > configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not > available > > > > But I could use X11() function in R-2-10. So where does the problem come from? > > Cheers, > > Carol > It looks like you're compiling from source and your system does not have the header files required installed. Did you compile your previous version or use a pre-built (binary) package? A binary package would not require the headers. I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what the name of packages you need for the headers. Typically the packages have the devel versions separate, you you need those. -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.3016 ______________________________________________ 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.
