[R] X11 problem

[Linlin Yan (颜林林)]

Thank you for the information!

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:53 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 25 August 2011 at 22:24, Linlin Yan (颜林林) wrote:
> | Because the official source is not as new as the latest version yet.
> 
> That is not true --- you get the most recent R version prebuilt for Ubuntu
> (and other Linux distros) via the CRAN repositories.
> 
> See the R FAQ about where to get to current Ubuntu etc versions, or read the
> README yourself at
> 
>    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
> 
> which also explains clearly how to import the key so suppress the (harmless) warning
> which Carol had posted earlier.
> 
> 
> | On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:59 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> | > 
> | > 
> | > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> | > wrote:
> | >         Thanks I ran your command but still get the same error message
> | >         when I run ./configure
> | >         
> | >         configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs
> | >         are not available
> | >         
> | > 
> | > 
> | > If you are installing via  apt-get, why do you have to
> | > run ./configure?
> 
> Still a very good and un-answered question.   This whole thread should have
> taken place on the dedicated mailing list 'r-sig-debian' which is there for
> your questions regarding R use and development on the Debian and Ubuntu platforms.
> 
> Dirk
>