I must say I'm pretty new to Linux Debian and R so I might miss here reporting some relevant information (just in case, sorry for that!); I've been looking around the web and also onto this mailing list - and indeed this topic has been already covered-, but still I can't find any useful solution to my problem (so I just hope someone can help me somehow)
by trying to install RCurl I got the following error message: ######################### install.packages('RCurl') Installing package into ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) provo con l'URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.5.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 878651 bytes (858 Kb) URL aperto ================================================== downloaded 858 Kb * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... ** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ * removing ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RCurl’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpYJSYzn/downloaded_packages’ ############################### and this is the content of my config.log ############################### This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was $ ./configure ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = max-debian uname -m = x86_64 uname -r = 3.2.0-4-amd64 uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = unknown /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown /usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /usr/bin PATH: /bin PATH: /usr/local/games PATH: /usr/games ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1786: checking for curl-config configure:1819: result: no ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ac_cv_env_CC_set= ac_cv_env_CC_value= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPP_set= ac_cv_env_CPP_value= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_LIBS_set= ac_cv_env_LIBS_value= ac_cv_env_build_alias_set= ac_cv_env_build_alias_value= ac_cv_env_host_alias_set= ac_cv_env_host_alias_value= ac_cv_env_target_alias_set= ac_cv_env_target_alias_value= ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## CC='' CFLAGS='' CPP='' CPPFLAGS='' CURL_CFLAGS='' CURL_CONFIG='' CURL_LIBS='' DEFINES='' DEFS='' ECHO_C='' ECHO_N='-n' ECHO_T='' EXEEXT='' LDFLAGS='' LIBOBJS='' LIBS='' LTLIBOBJS='' OBJEXT='' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' PACKAGE_NAME='' PACKAGE_STRING='' PACKAGE_TARNAME='' PACKAGE_URL='' PACKAGE_VERSION='' PATH_SEPARATOR=':' SHELL='/bin/bash' ac_ct_CC='' bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' build_alias='' datadir='${datarootdir}' datarootdir='${prefix}/share' docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}' dvidir='${docdir}' exec_prefix='NONE' host_alias='' htmldir='${docdir}' includedir='${prefix}/include' infodir='${datarootdir}/info' libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec' localedir='${datarootdir}/locale' localstatedir='${prefix}/var' mandir='${datarootdir}/man' oldincludedir='/usr/include' pdfdir='${docdir}' prefix='NONE' program_transform_name='s,x,x,' psdir='${docdir}' sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin' sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' target_alias='' ## ----------- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## ----------- ## /* confdefs.h */ #define PACKAGE_NAME "" #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" #define PACKAGE_STRING "" #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" #define PACKAGE_URL "" configure: exit 1 ########################## and finally this is my sessionInfo() ############################ R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 [4] LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.1.2 ##################### can anyone possibly give me some indications on how to proceed in order to sort out this problem? any help much appreciated bye -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/issue-on-installation-of-RCurl-on-Debian-Wheezy-tp4701058.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.