Hi,
Thank you for responding. One thing I forgot to mention (although I'm
guessing you figured it out anyway) is that I'm running Mac OS X.
I checked and I've got the file /usr/include/zlib.h installed on my
machine. Is this enough for R or does it need a more robust
installation of zlib? If this is enough, how do I let R know about the
zlib.h file. If it's not, where should I get the correct zlib from?
Thank you for any and all responses.
-Xander
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:43, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> R comes with it's own copy of zlib so even if it is compiled into R,
> there isn't necessarily a system-wide installation of the library.
> You may still need to install it.
>
> -roger
>
> Xander Meadow wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a Dual G5 running 10.3.7 and I'm trying to install RMySQL.
> > I've already got R up and running. When I try the command
> >
> >
> >>install.packages("RMySQL")
> >
> >
> > It downloads a few things and then produces the following error:
> > ---------------------------
> > Configuration error:
> > Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL.
> >
> > INSTRUCTIONS:
> >
> > The "libz" library is required by the MySQL client library
> > in order to compress/uncompress connections between clients
> > and the MySQL engine.
> >
> > Make sure you have "libz" installed properly and/or included
> > in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Perhaps it is not in any of the
> > standard directories (e.g., /usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib)?
> >
> > Aborting the installation of RMySQL.
> >
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL'
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > However, if I check for libz I get:
> >
> >
> >>capabilities("libz")
> >
> > libz
> > TRUE
> >
> > I'm not sure what the problem is because R is telling me that it doesn't
> > know where libz is, but then it's also telling me it does know where
> > libz is.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this problem or know how I can get RMySQL installed
> > on my machine?
> >
> > Just as an added note I know that install.packages works because
> >
> >
> >>install.packages("DBI")
> >
> >
> > worked without a problem.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > -Xander
> >
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