On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Baoqiang Cao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got an error when tried to install RCurl, here is what I did:
>
> R CMD INSTALL RCurl_1.6-6.tar.gz
> * installing to library ?/home/b/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13?
> * installing *source* package ?RCurl? ...
> checking for curl-config... no
> Cannot find curl-config
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl?
> * removing ?/home/b/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RCurl?
>
>
> my R version is:
Not the way the R posting guide asked you to specify this!
>> version
> _
> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i486
> os linux-gnu
> system i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 13.0
> year 2011
> month 04
> day 13
> svn rev 55427
> language R
> version.string R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>
> Any help, please?
Install libcurl, including its development files (libcurl-devel on
RPM-based distributions). As the DESCRIPTION file says:
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
(but most Linux distros separate curl, libcurl and libcurl-devel).
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