On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Baoqiang Cao wrote:
Hi,I got an error when tried to install RCurl, here is what I did: R CMD INSTALL RCurl_1.6-6.tar.gz * installing to library ‘/home/b/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ * removing ‘/home/b/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RCurl’ my R version is:
Not the way the R posting guide asked you to specify this!
version_ platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 13.0 year 2011 month 04 day 13 svn rev 55427 language R version.string R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Any help, please?
Install libcurl, including its development files (libcurl-devel on RPM-based distributions). As the DESCRIPTION file says:
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se (but most Linux distros separate curl, libcurl and libcurl-devel). -- Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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