Error message installing Cairo package in R

Question

I want to install the Cairo package in R using:

install.packages("Cairo")

Unfortunately this doesn't work. The error message is following:

xlib-backend.c:34:74: fatal error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Cairo’
* removing ‘/home/magnus/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/Cairo’

Does anybody have an answer for this problem? I couldn't find any help in the inte.net so far.

Many thanks in advance!

Yours,

broesel

Answer 1

For me (Ubuntu 15.04) installing libxt-dev solved the problem.

(I know it's mentioned in comments above, but thought it might be good to have it in answers as well)

Answer 2

You need the development header as the file Intrinsic.h is not found.

For the related package cairoDevice (which I maintain for Debian), I ensure the following is installed:

libgtk2.0-dev, libcairo2-dev, xvfb, xauth, xfonts-base

If you are on a different distribution these might be called something else. The key is that the Gtk and Cairo header packages also pull in other, needed, x11 packages.

Answer 3

在 Fedora (25) 中需要安装libXt-devel ：

sudo dnf install libXt-devel

Answer 4

On a Mac, my problems were solved once I installed libxt

brew install libxt

Similar, I'm sure to https://stackoverflow.com/a/41455437/61728

Answer 5

除了 Dirk 在上述评论中提到的libgtk2.0-dev 、 libcairo2-dev 、 xvfb 、 xfonts-base和xauth之外，我还安装了libxt-dev （在 Magnus 的评论之后），之后我能够在其中安装 Cairo R. 我使用的是 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Answer 6

I had a lot of trouble with this, for some reason this didn't work

apt-get install libx11-dev libxt-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev xvfb xauth xfonts-base -y

but when I ran this immediately afterwards (even though it was already installed above), then the Cairo R package installed successfully. Not exactly sure why but thought I'd put it here in case it helps someone.

apt-get install libcairo2-dev -y

Answer 7

I used this:

devtools::install_github("jcassiojr/BayesPeak")

then:

library("BayesPeak")

And worked. Paulo