I think you need to have curl-config installed. I had a similar problem on Ubuntu and found the program in various packages:.
$ apt-file search curl-config | grep bin libcurl4-gnutls-dev: /usr/bin/curl-config libcurl4-nss-dev: /usr/bin/curl-config libcurl4-openssl-dev: /usr/bin/curl-config I think that installing any one of them would probably fix the problem. I think I used the "openssl" one. -- Mike On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:38 PM, maxbre <mbres...@arpa.veneto.it> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.