R devel - Jul 2009 - Installation of R_2.9.1 & readline (PR#13805)

Full_Name: Noyb
Version: 2.9.1
OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Submission from: (NULL) (141.53.34.152)


Hello,
when I try to install R by "./configure", I get the following message:

<quote>
.
.
.
configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
available
<end of quote>.

Installation by "./configure --with-readline=no" works, but then I do
not have
the comfort do use the arrow-keys for moving the cursor within a command or
scrolling through command history. Any ideas?

Thanks!

mb990434 at uni-greifswald.de wrote:
> Full_Name: Noyb
> Version: 2.9.1
> OS: Ubuntu 9.04
> Submission from: (NULL) (141.53.34.152)
> 
> 
> Hello,
> when I try to install R by "./configure", I get the following
message:
> 
> <quote>
> .
> .
> .
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
> <end of quote>.
> 
> Installation by "./configure --with-readline=no" works, but then
I do not have
> the comfort do use the arrow-keys for moving the cursor within a command or
> scrolling through command history. Any ideas?

Not a bug at all, almsot a frequently asked question,so please do NOT 
write a bug report and read what a bug report is intended to be.

Answer: Install readline-devel to your OS.


Uwe Ligges

> Thanks!
> 
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On 6 July 2009 at 08:50, mb990434 at uni-greifswald.de wrote:
| Submission from: (NULL) (141.53.34.152)
| 
| 
| Hello,
| when I try to install R by "./configure", I get the following
message:
| 
| <quote>
| .
| .
| .
| configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
| available
| <end of quote>.
| 
| Installation by "./configure --with-readline=no" works, but then I
do not have
| the comfort do use the arrow-keys for moving the cursor within a command or
| scrolling through command history. Any ideas?

See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ for detailed instruction on
getting pre-compiled current versions of R for Ubuntu.

As for your other non-bug bug report, you also get Rcmdr for Ubuntu via
'sudo
apt-get r-cran-rcmdr' --- and the same holds for a number of other CRAN
packages which are already in Ubuntu.

Dirk

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