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On December 23, 2014 1:38:34 PM PST, maxbre <mbres...@arpa.veneto.it> wrote: >I must say I'm pretty new to Linux Debian and R so I might miss here >reporting some relevant information (just in case, sorry for that!); >I've >been looking around the web and also onto this mailing list - and >indeed >this topic has been already covered-, but still I can't find any useful >solution to my problem (so I just hope someone can help me somehow) > >by trying to install RCurl I got the following error message: > >######################### >install.packages('RCurl') >Installing package into ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’ >(as ‘lib’ is unspecified) >provo con l'URL >'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.5.tar.gz' >Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 878651 bytes (858 Kb) >URL aperto >================================================== >downloaded 858 Kb > >* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... >** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >checking for curl-config... no >Cannot find curl-config >ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ >* removing ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RCurl’ >Warning in install.packages : > installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status > >The downloaded source packages are in > ‘/tmp/RtmpYJSYzn/downloaded_packages’ > >############################### > >and this is the content of my config.log > >############################### > >This file contains any messages produced by compilers while >running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. > >It was created by configure, which was >generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was > > $ ./configure > >## --------- ## >## Platform. ## >## --------- ## > >hostname = max-debian >uname -m = x86_64 >uname -r = 3.2.0-4-amd64 >uname -s = Linux >uname -v = #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 > >/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown >/bin/uname -X = unknown > >/bin/arch = unknown >/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown >/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown >/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown >/bin/machine = unknown >/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown >/bin/universe = unknown > >PATH: /usr/local/bin >PATH: /usr/bin >PATH: /bin >PATH: /usr/local/games >PATH: /usr/games > > >## ----------- ## >## Core tests. ## >## ----------- ## > >configure:1786: checking for curl-config >configure:1819: result: no > >## ---------------- ## >## Cache variables. ## >## ---------------- ## > >ac_cv_env_CC_set= >ac_cv_env_CC_value= >ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set= >ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value= >ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set= >ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value= >ac_cv_env_CPP_set= >ac_cv_env_CPP_value= >ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set= >ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value= >ac_cv_env_LIBS_set= >ac_cv_env_LIBS_value= >ac_cv_env_build_alias_set= >ac_cv_env_build_alias_value= >ac_cv_env_host_alias_set= >ac_cv_env_host_alias_value= >ac_cv_env_target_alias_set= >ac_cv_env_target_alias_value= > >## ----------------- ## >## Output variables. ## >## ----------------- ## > > >CC='' >CFLAGS='' >CPP='' >CPPFLAGS='' >CURL_CFLAGS='' >CURL_CONFIG='' >CURL_LIBS='' >DEFINES='' >DEFS='' >ECHO_C='' >ECHO_N='-n' >ECHO_T='' >EXEEXT='' >LDFLAGS='' >LIBOBJS='' >LIBS='' >LTLIBOBJS='' >OBJEXT='' >PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' >PACKAGE_NAME='' >PACKAGE_STRING='' >PACKAGE_TARNAME='' >PACKAGE_URL='' >PACKAGE_VERSION='' >PATH_SEPARATOR=':' >SHELL='/bin/bash' >ac_ct_CC='' >bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' >build_alias='' >datadir='${datarootdir}' >datarootdir='${prefix}/share' >docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}' >dvidir='${docdir}' >exec_prefix='NONE' >host_alias='' >htmldir='${docdir}' >includedir='${prefix}/include' >infodir='${datarootdir}/info' >libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' >libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec' >localedir='${datarootdir}/locale' >localstatedir='${prefix}/var' >mandir='${datarootdir}/man' >oldincludedir='/usr/include' >pdfdir='${docdir}' >prefix='NONE' >program_transform_name='s,x,x,' >psdir='${docdir}' >sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin' >sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' >sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' >target_alias='' > >## ----------- ## >## confdefs.h. ## >## ----------- ## > >/* confdefs.h */ >#define PACKAGE_NAME "" >#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" >#define PACKAGE_VERSION "" >#define PACKAGE_STRING "" >#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" >#define PACKAGE_URL "" > >configure: exit 1 > >########################## > >and finally this is my sessionInfo() > >############################ > >R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) >Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 > [4] LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8 >LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8 >[7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C > >[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8 >LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >attached base packages: >[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > >loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >[1] tools_3.1.2 > > >##################### > > >can anyone possibly give me some indications on how to proceed in order >to >sort out this problem? >any help much appreciated > >bye > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/issue-on-installation-of-RCurl-on-Debian-Wheezy-tp4701058.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.