On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:23 AM, aoife <aoife.m.dohe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys,I'm working with R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) on a unix machine
You may be missing some openGL libraries (mesa ? ) On Ubuntu, this solved my problem of installing rgl: sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl Can't vouch for any future complications with rendering in other applications...so as always, use at your own risk. Hope this helps Elai and > I'm having a similar problem. I have a matrix and i want to do a simple > correspondance analysis. I tried to install the ca package i get this error: > >> library(ca) > Loading required package: rgl > Warning messages: > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: no suitable visual available > 2: In fun(libname, pkgname) : error in rgl_init >> > > so then i downloaded rgl, at the end of the installation process for rgl it > says: > > Warning messages: > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: no suitable visual available > 2: In fun(libname, pkgname) : error in rgl_init > > > and when you look in the library for rgl you get: >> library(rgl) >> > > > Would anyone know (in simple language, i'm a biologist, not a statistician > :( ) either how to fix this, or an alternative package that will do a simple > correpondance analysis on a matrix? > > Many thanks > Aoife > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Installing-rgl-tp865867p4409845.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.