[R] Compilation of R under UBUNTU Edgy

[andrew rowland]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Cressoni, Massimo (NIH/NHLBI) [F] wrote:

> >
> > I am not able to compile R under ubuntu Edgy.
> > ./configure error message is
> > configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
> > I do not know which library is missing (I tried to install some X11 libs but were already on the system).
>   
Unless there is a compelling reason to build R from source, v. 2.2.1 is 
available in the Ubuntu repositories and can be installed via the 
package manager.  Otherwise you'll need to install the xserver-xorg-dev 
package to get the X Windows header files.