You need to install the development package of the readline library. In
RedHat I believe it's called readline-devel.
-roger
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Adam Gehr wrote:
> I've been using R on windows for a number of years, so when
> I recently installed
> Linux I wanted to install R as well. Downloading and
> installing the rpm's for R-Base and R-recommended went well
> and I seem to have a functioning R.
>
> I then downloaded the quadreg package and used R CMD
> INSTALL to install it. All went well up to a message:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> which stopped the installation. I checked to see whether
> readline is installed and found that it is and, furthermore,
> the arrow keys and emacs keys work fine in R. Any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> I'm using R 1.5.1 on Mandrake Linux 8.2.
>
> Adam Gehr
>
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