How about you include a thread like
"Problem with R 2.3.0 and MySQL on Mandriva-2007".
Bests,
milton
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, ankhee dutta <ankheedutta@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, All
> I have a linux system of Mandriva-2007 with R version 2.3.0 and MySQL with
> 5.0.0. I have also got DBI-R database interface version-0.1-11 installed on
> my Linux system.While installing RMySQL package version 0.5-11 but facing
> the problem mentioned below .
>
>
>
> * Installing *source* package 'RMySQL' ...
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
> checking for compress in -lz... yes
> checking for getopt_long in -lc... yes
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for mysql.h... no
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for /usr/local/include/mysql/mysql.h... no
> checking for /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h... no
> checking for /usr/local/mysql/include/
> mysql/mysql.h... no
> checking for /opt/include/mysql/mysql.h... no
> checking for /include/mysql/mysql.h... no
>
> Configuration error:
> could not find the MySQL installation include and/or library
> directories. Manually specify the location of the MySQL
> libraries and the header files and re-run R CMD INSTALL.
>
> INSTRUCTIONS:
>
> 1. Define and export the 2 shell variables PKG_CPPFLAGS and
> PKG_LIBS to include the directory for header files (*.h)
> and libraries, for example (using Bourne shell syntax):
>
> export PKG_CPPFLAGS="-I<MySQL-include-dir>"
> export PKG_LIBS="-L<MySQL-lib-dir> -lmysqlclient"
>
> Re-run the R INSTALL command:
>
> R CMD INSTALL RMySQL_<version>.tar.gz
>
> 2. Alternatively, you may pass the configure arguments
> --with-mysql-dir=<base-dir> (distribution directory)
> or
> --with-mysql-inc=<base-inc> (where MySQL header files reside)
> --with-mysql-lib=<base-lib> (where MySQL libraries reside)
> in the call to R INSTALL --configure-args='...'
>
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-mysql-dir=DIR'
> RMySQL_<version>.tar.gz
>
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/RMySQL'
>
>
>
>
>
> Any help will be great.
> Thankyou in advance.
>
> --
> Ankhee Dutta
> project trainee,
> JNU,New Delhi-67
>
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