On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Robert Gentleman wrote: > > > Oleg Bartunov wrote: >> I just upgraded R to version 2.4.0 and now I can't install packages >> RdbiPgSQL. I used the same procedure I did for previous versions of R ! >> Actually, last time I installed RdbiPgSQL day before upgrading >> but now I got: >> >> downloaded 27Kb >> >> * Installing *source* package 'RdbiPgSQL' ... >> creating cache ./config.cache >> checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq... no >> >> I could not find your PostgreSQL client libraries! > > Well it looks like you might have done more than that since the error is > saying that the package cannot find your postgres client libraries and note > in the text right below this are some suggestions on how to specify > non-standard locations. > > I have tried on two systems with postgres in its standard location and > observed no such problem.
I succeded after exporting PG_LIB_DIR and PG_INCLUDE_DIR and using R CMD INSTALL RdbiPgSQL_1.9.0.tar.gz I still don't understand why install.packages fails. > > >> Use --with-pgsql-libraries=PATH; if running R's INSTALL, >> use --configure-args='--with-pgsql-libraries=PATH'; or >> set PG_LIB_DIR in your environment to the library path, >> and rerun the configure/install. >> >> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RdbiPgSQL' >> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/RdbiPgSQL' >> >> The downloaded packages are in >> /tmp/RtmpA3Mdb4/downloaded_packages >> Warning message: >> installation of package 'RdbiPgSQL' had non-zero exit status in: >> install.packages("RdbiPgSQL", repos = rS, configure.args = c(PGSQL = >> "--with-pgsql-libraries=/usr/local/pgsql/lib >> --with-pgsql-includes=/usr/local/pgsql/include")) >> >> Looks like install.packages doesn't pass configure.args to the package. >> >> Regards, >> Oleg >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), >> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia >> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ >> phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >> > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.