How to solve the error “ missing required header GL/gl.h” while installing the Package mvoutlier in R?

Question

I am trying to install the package mvoutlier but following error occurs during installation:

install.packages(\"mvoutlier\")
configure: error: missi         


        

Answer 1

I suspect you are running Ubuntu 12.04.I think you're going to find that this works for the GL/gl.h problem:

install these at the regular old terminal, ie pretend R doesn't exist for now:

libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev

You might get the following error later (in R) because of a tcl b****/gripe/complaint:

Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
  [tcl] can't find package BWidget.

To fix this problem, if you have it:

sudo apt-get install bwidget

These are not R problems. They are OS problems!