This is possibly the wrong list, but anyway ... Using Linux Debian-4.0 Etch (regularly upgraded). I set about installing Simon Woods' "soap" package -- see: http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~sw283/simon/software.html So I downloaded the tar archive soap_0.1-3.tar.gz and then ran (as root) R CMD INSTALL as follows (and with the following errors): # R CMD INSTALL /home/ted/Downloads/soap_0.1-3.tar.gz * installing to library ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library? * installing *source* package ?soap? ... ** libs gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -fpic -g -O2 -c soap.c -o soap.o soap.c:6:18: error: math.h: No such file or directory soap.c:7:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory [the remaining output being assorted warnings] Now, I do have math.h and stdio.h: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/math.h /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/stdio.h which may be a non-standard place (usually, in the past at any rate, in /usr/include). The soap bundle has one file to be compiled: soap/src/soap.c I have tried to pick my way around what happens when you call R CMD INSTALL, in order to find where the "-I/usr/share/R/include" comes from, so as to enable it to locate math.h and stdio.h, but I got lost! Any advice welcome! With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Nov-09 Time: 14:42:21 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------