R help - Apr 2016 - installation problem on Ubuntu

I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu 12.04.
I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.

I tried upgrading the normal way:

sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing from
source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try to
install packages, I get this error:

Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
  internet routines cannot be loaded
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
  unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
  /usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol: curl_multi_wait

>> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
>> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
Thanks!

P

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Have you read the CRAN  instructions for installing on Ubuntu?  Have you read
the Posting Guide that mentions the R-sig-debian mailing list and that if you
need help compiling R this is not the right list?
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On April 20, 2016 9:36:51 AM PDT, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremblay at
gmail.com> wrote:
>I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu
>12.04.
>I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.
>
>I tried upgrading the normal way:
>
>sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
>
>But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing
>from
>source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try to
>install packages, I get this error:
>
>Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>  internet routines cannot be loaded
>In addition: Warning message:
>In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>  unable to load shared object
'/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
>/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol:
>curl_multi_wait
>
>
>>> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
>>> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
>
>Thanks!
>
>P
>
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