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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon markvanderloo

Installing difficulty

Open patnatha opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

having problems installing this package on a unix machine without X11 and only command line access. Is there away to disable the graphing functions for installation? Having problems with the gWidgetstcltk?

patnatha avatar Nov 20 '17 20:11 patnatha

I think you need to run R using the X virtual frame buffer xvfb-run. This is also what CRAN does (but don't ask me for specific options and so on)

markvanderloo avatar Nov 21 '17 15:11 markvanderloo

Hi @markvanderloo Unfortunately, we don't have xvfb installed on our servers. We are looking to install the package ImputeRobust which depends on extremevalues and things are failing.

Is there an alternative?

affans avatar Dec 18 '19 20:12 affans

Unfortunately, not that I know of. You could download this repository, remove evGui.r and dependence on the GUI packages and then build from source. I recently had to install many packages on a headless server and also used xvfb to run R. It is what both CRAN and r-hub use.

There is a related blog post at the RStudio Support forum that might help you. This issue is not unique to extremeValues, but any package requiring X11.

markvanderloo avatar Dec 30 '19 08:12 markvanderloo