I ran into identical readline problems. For me appealing to the sysadmin to install readline correctly with rpms or the like was not an option. I needed a personal copy of R which I could update and add packages to at my own discretion. So I
1. got readline 5.2 from gnu.org. 2. From readline extracted distribution root folder, called ./configure --prefix=/myreadlinehome; make; make install 3. From R extracted distribution root folder, executed the following configure command ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/myreadlinehome/lib" --prefix=/myrhome CPPFLAGS="-I/myreadlinehome/include/" Performing those steps allowed me to build a version of R with all the familiar up/down arrow tab completion etc. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/readline-detection-problems-tp2719581p14816968.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.
