Hi Taka, I was just trying to do this yesterday and ran into the same problem (compiling R 2.6.1 on Gutsy Gibbon). Apparently this happens on Debian/Ubuntu distributions because the developer install is separate from the user install.
Basically, to address the configure error: "--with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available" you need the development version of readline: sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev (see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html) Later, I ran into another configure error: "--with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available" so I installed xorg-dev: sudo apt-get install xorg-dev (see http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/11/5193.html) At the end, I also got a configure WARNING: "you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals " so then I installed texinfo: sudo apt-get install texinfo (see http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/04/15498.html) Hope this helps, ST ----- Original Message ---- From: Takatsugu Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 10:52:11 AM Subject: Re: [R] R Compilation error on Ubuntu Hi I bought a new laptop HP dv9500 just a week ago and installed a Ubuntu gutsy ribbon on this laptop. I wanted to install Fedora but there are more threads on Ubuntu, so I decided to install Ubuntu. After hours of struggle in configuring x server/graphic card stuff, I installed R for Gutsy ribbon using "sudo apt-get install g77 r-core'. Now when I tried to install 'sp' package I got this error message: Warning in install.packages("sp") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/sp_0.9-17.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 359194 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 350Kb * Installing *source* package 'sp' ... ** libs gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -I/usr/share/R/include -fpic -g -O2 -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o /bin/bash: gcc-4.2: command not found make: *** [gcdist.o] Error 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sp' ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/sp' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpfOk3H7/downloaded_packages Warning message: installation of package 'sp' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("sp") Then, I removed this gutsy ribbon version of R and attempted to install fresh R-2.6.1.tar.gz. When I tried to build it, I got this error message: configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available I installed xserver-xorg-dev ok. I am using Fedora 6 on my desktop and have never seen these above error messages. Should I install a Fedora and R on it? Or should I just create a link using 'ln -s'? I appreciate your help. [[replacing trailing spam]] taka ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.