Hi,
I am having trouble getting Cairo properly installed for R. The details (what I
tried, what I got, and my system info) are below. Any ideas would be
appreciated.
Hugh Rand
How I tried to install it:
install.packages('Cairo',,'http://www.rforge.net/')?
What the message was:
* Installing *source* package 'Cairo' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the
C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking
for suffix of executables...
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 grep that handles long
lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI
C header files... yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for
stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for
stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for string.h... (cached)
yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking
for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for pkg-config!
... /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no checking cairo.h
usability... yes checking cairo.h presence... yes checking for cairo.h... yes
checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes checking for ATS font support in
Cairo... no
configure: CAIRO_LIBS=-L/apps/freetype/current/lib
-L/apps/fontconfig/current/lib -L/apps/pixman/current/lib
-L/apps/cairo/current/lib checking for library containing deflate... -lz
checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled... configure: error: Cannot
compile a simple Cairo program. See config.log for details.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Cairo'
** Removing '/apps/R/R-2.7.0/library/Cairo'
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpWoXEcO/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("Cairo", , "http://www.rforge.net/";) :
installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
We compile R under Red-hat linux. The various bits of system information are:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
-bash-3.00$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
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