Installing difficulty

[patnatha]

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?

[markvanderloo]

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)

[affans]

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?

[markvanderloo]

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.