I'm trying to install the XML package on Ubuntu 10.10, and I keep getting a warning message the XML could not be found and had non-zero exit status. How can I fix this problem?
> install.packages() Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Installing package(s) into /home/amathew/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13 (as lib is unspecified) trying URL ' http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/XML_3.4-0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 896195 bytes (875 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 875 Kb * installing *source* package XML ... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E No ability to remove finalizers on externalptr objects in this verison of R checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for xml2-config... no Cannot find xml2-config ERROR: configuration failed for package XML * removing /home/amathew/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/XML The downloaded packages are in /tmp/Rtmp2V4huR/downloaded_packages Warning message: In install.packages() : installation of package 'XML' had non-zero exit status Thank You, Abraham [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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