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Install package "png" in R/ubuntu

(Under ubuntu), I try:

install.packages("png")

and get:

** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
  unable to load shared object '/home/kaveh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/png/libs/png.so':
  libpng16.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I thought it has to due with libpng being obselete but I have already installed it from this link using:

./configure 
make check
make install

so I don't really know what more to do~

Solution

  • You may be missing the libpng* headers in order to build from source. On my machine(s), I have package libpng12-dev installed. Ensure you have it too, and then try installing png again.

    Also note that 

    R> capabilities()["png"]
 png 
TRUE 
R>

    so your default build of R should already have the ability to create png files.