Hello. I'm having trouble installing rgl. I have a theory as to the problem. First, the error message and session info.
> install.packages("rgl") trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/rgl_0.81.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1636939 bytes (1.6 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.6 Mb * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ... 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 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... yes checking GL/gl.h presence... yes checking for GL/gl.h... yes checking GL/glu.h usability... yes checking GL/glu.h presence... yes checking for GL/glu.h... yes checking for glEnd in -lGL... no configure: error: missing required library GL ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl' ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/rgl' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpZAeU9W/downloaded_packages Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' Warning message: In install.packages("rgl") : installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.2 Patched (2008-09-02 r46486) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.7.2 So, the error appears to be related to libGL (or libGLU?). I am running OpenSUSE 10.2. I have the OpenGL packages installed. I have the MESA and MESA-devel packages installed which provide libGL.so.1 and libGLU.so.1. I also have the fglrx (proprietary ATI driver package installed) which also provides libGL.so.1 (but no libGLU.so.1). I suspect that an incompatible libGL is being found (both versions appear to be on the system in different directories). How do I confirm if this is the case and force a particular lib file during package installation? Kevin -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057 ______________________________________________ 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.