I have seen this question here: Error in loading rgl package with Mac OS X but there is no mentioning about installation error, which is my case. I cannot install rgl
package, using this command in R
:
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("rgl")
The following error is displayed:
configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’ * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/rgl’
I checked this address /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library
and there is no rgl
folder, so I cannot delete aglrgl.so
(or rgl.so
), which is the answer to the above-mentioned question. Can you please help me with this installation problem? Thanks.
On Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, you might get this issue when trying to install rgl
from CRAN:
checking for X... no configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
Credit is due to this blog which solved my problems at installing rgl
:
http://solaimurugan.blogspot.ca/2015/09/3d-data-visualization-using-r-configure.html
In case the link above disappears, the solution, as outlined in the blog is:
sudo apt-get install xorg
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
More recently, installing rgl on a fresh ubuntu 16.04 install also requires a further step (as noted in the comments below), if you get this error:
fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
This is solved with:
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
Then installing rgl
from CRAN should just work.