Installation of Package ‘rggobi’ requires GGobi

Installation of package ‘rggobi’ had non-zero exit status on my way to solve all the rattle dependencies.

rggobi is an interface from R to GGobi – an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots. Plots are interactive and linked with brushing and identification (from the package description).

When trying to install rggobi R complained accordingly error: Package requirements (ggobi >= 2.1.6) were not met: No package 'ggobi' found

and the fix is not hard to figure out:
sudo aptitude install ggobi

rggobi also depends on RGtk2 which in turn requires libglade. That was another post.

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libglade not found – Installation of package ‘RGtk2’ had non-zero exit status

Both R-packages rattle and rggobi depend on RGtk2. Trying to install RGtk2 threw an error: WARNING: libglade not found

Fix:
sudo aptitude install libglade2-dev
installs the development files for libglade, which allows to load externally stored user interfaces into programs. This development file is needed for the graphical user interfaces of both rggobi and rattle.

Installing RODBC with Ubuntu/Debian amd64

Trying to install RODBC in Ubuntu with
install.packages("RODBC")
failed throwing an error message
ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found

A glance at the r-help showed that it had to do with something called unixODBC – an ODBC driver manager.

The package was installed, but not the development package and thus not the headers which R complained about.

Again a not-so-obvious-for-the-newbee-Linux-Unix-Shell-goblish thing. The fix is
sudo aptitude install unixodbc-dev