[R] Cannot Install rimage

[Peter Dalgaard]

Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm trying to install rimage in R version 2.5.1 running on Fedora 6
> (kernel 2.6.22.7-57.fc6 with the headers and gcc installed, along with
> fftw2 and libjpeg and headers):
>
>   
>> install.packages("rimage")
>>     
> Warning in install.packages("rimage") : argument 'lib' is missing: using
> '/usr/lib/R/library'
> trying URL
> 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/rimage_0.5-7.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 331029 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 323Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package 'rimage' ...
> checking for g++... no
> checking for c++... no
> checking for gpp... no
> checking for aCC... no
> checking for CC... no
> checking for cxx... no
> checking for cc++... no
> checking for cl... no
> checking for FCC... no
> checking for KCC... no
> checking for RCC... no
> checking for xlC_r... no
> checking for xlC... no
> checking for C++ compiler default output... configure: error: C++
> compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rimage'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rimage'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/RtmpGDx12u/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'rimage' had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages("rimage") 
>
> I cannot find "config.log" that is mentioned. Can someone please tell me
> what is missing from my configuration? rimage installed on another
> system running Fedora 7 once I installed fftw2.
>
>   
Looks like you haven't got a C++ compiler. I don't remember where it
went in FC6 but in Fedora 7 it goes in

$ rpm -qf `which g++`
gcc-c++-4.1.2-12


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