I'm trying to install the rdatamarket package. I did an install.packages('rdatamarket') command but got an error about half way through the install as follows:
* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ The install continued after the error but looks like it was completed. I'm trying to figure out what the error means and how I fix it. Here's what I'm seeing ...ideas on how to address this would be appreciated : install.packages('rdatamarket') Installing package(s) into ‘/home/eric/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- also installing the dependencies ‘RCurl’, ‘RJSONIO’ trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 813252 bytes (794 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 794 Kb trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/RJSONIO_0.96-0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1144519 bytes (1.1 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.1 Mb trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/rdatamarket_0.6.3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 12432 bytes (12 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 12 Kb * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ * removing ‘/home/eric/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RCurl’ * installing *source* package ‘RJSONIO’ ... Trying to find libjson.h header file checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no 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 USE_LOCAL = "" Using local libjson code. Copying files /tmp/RtmpFw9QeX/R.INSTALL4ebf657f/RJSONIO configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars config.status: creating cleanup ** libs gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c ConvertUTF.c -o ConvertUTF.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONChildren.cpp -o JSONChildren.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONDebug.cpp -o JSONDebug.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONIterators.cpp -o JSONIterators.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONMemory.cpp -o JSONMemory.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONNode.cpp -o JSONNode.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONNode_Mutex.cpp -o JSONNode_Mutex.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONStream.cpp -o JSONStream.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONValidator.cpp -o JSONValidator.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONWorker.cpp -o JSONWorker.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSONWriter.cpp -o JSONWriter.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c JSON_Base64.cpp -o JSON_Base64.o gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c JSON_parser.c -o JSON_parser.o gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c RJSON.c -o RJSON.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c internalJSONNode.cpp -o internalJSONNode.o g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c libjson.cpp -o libjson.o gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -I. -Ilibjson -Ilibjson/Source -DNDEBUG=1 -DJSON_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -fpic -std=gnu99 -O3 -pipe -g -c rlibjson.c -o rlibjson.o g++ -shared -o RJSONIO.so ConvertUTF.o JSONChildren.o JSONDebug.o JSONIterators.o JSONMemory.o JSONNode.o JSONNode_Mutex.o JSONStream.o JSONValidator.o JSONWorker.o JSONWriter.o JSON_Base64.o JSON_parser.o RJSON.o internalJSONNode.o libjson.o rlibjson.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR installing to /home/eric/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RJSONIO/libs ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading in method for ‘toJSON’ with signature ‘"AsIs"’: no definition for class "AsIs" ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ... ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (RJSONIO) ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘rdatamarket’ * removing ‘/home/eric/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/rdatamarket’ The downloaded packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmpz8PqWE/downloaded_packages’ > require(rdatamarket) Loading required package: rdatamarket Warning message: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, : there is no package called 'rdatamarket' -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/install-packages-problem-tp3994239p3994239.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.