Trouble installing R package Cairo

Question

[rbronste]

Hi,

Trying to install Cairo package through CRAN and although the install goes smoothly I get the following message when trying to load package - have not seen this with other packages where download is normal:

Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'Cairo', details:
  call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
  error: unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/Cairo/libs/Cairo.so':
  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/Cairo/libs/Cairo.so, 6): 
  Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libXrender.1.dylib
  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/Cairo/libs/Cairo.so
  Reason: image not found
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘Cairo’

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Samuel Brady]

You may need to install Cairo on your operating system. This can get you started:

https://www.cairographics.org/download/.

This may also be helpful:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16678934/r-cairo-installation-without-apt-get-sudo#25014476.

Good luck.