Hi Rxperts, I tried with r-cran-rgl (based on the default installation of Ubuntu) with reinstalled rgl package from R-forge.. I get the missing GL/gl.h header. Didn't reinstall Mesa libraries per recommendations of Duncan.
* installing *source* package ‘rgl’ ...** package ‘rgl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checkedchecking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking for libpng-config... yes configure: using libpng-config configure: using libpng dynamic linkage checking for X... libraries , headers checking GL/gl.h usability... no checking GL/gl.h presence... no checking for GL/gl.h... no checking GL/glu.h usability... no checking GL/glu.h presence... no checking for GL/glu.h... noconfigure: error: missing required header GL/gl.hERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’ * removing ‘/data/R/lib/rgl’Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rgl’ had non-zero exit status On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Santosh <santosh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Duncan, > Thanks for the suggestions. How do I uninstall mesa related installations? > Do I need to uninstall all of "mesa" or only the specific ones? > > Santosh > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 24/11/2017 5:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >>> >>> On 24 November 2017 at 11:30, Santosh wrote: >>> | Hi All, Duncan, Rolf, Ista, DIrk, >>> | >>> | Thanks for the suggestions and I tried all of them (as suggested by >>> Duncan, >>> | Rolf, Ista and Dirk)... I still get similar error as before while >>> | installing 'rgl' package.. I also tried to manually configure "rgl" >>> and got >>> | an error message (please see below for the verbatim output). Would >>> highly >>> | any further ideas/suggestions! >>> | >>> | *In my system, "GL" library is present under "/usr/include/GL"* >>> | >>> | Here are the libraries available (as suggested by Rolf) >>> | >>> | After installing some of them, I continue to get the same error >>> message, >>> | please below the output messages in config.log after I ran >>> "./configure") >>> | >>> | >>> | "ii r-cran-rgl 0.93.996-1 >>> | amd64 GNU R package for three-dimensional visualisation >>> | using OpenGL" >>> >>> That means you _have_ the rgl package installed, and can stop everything >>> you >>> are doing. >>> >>> You do _not_ need to install it from source via R. You have it from >>> Ubuntu. >>> >>> >> Actually the version on CRAN is pretty old, so I'd recommend people do >> install it from source, getting the source from R-forge. Since that is a >> development site the quality varies over time, but right at this minute I >> would say it is better than the CRAN version. >> >> Re Santosh's error messages: it looks as though the Mesa installation is >> messed up. I'd recommend uninstalling it, making sure there's no remnant >> of Mesa anywhere, then reinstalling it. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.