[R] Problem installing ROracle package under R

[dhinds@sonic.net]

In gmane.comp.lang.r.general Vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it> wrote:

> configuration warning:
> Oracle pre-compiler proc not in 
> /usr/local/oracle8-client/bin/proc
> you may not be able to compile 
> ROracle

You don't have the Oracle Pro*C precompiler installed.  You can't
build ROracle without that.  This tool is part of a regular Oracle
client installation; but the FreeBSD client for Oracle appears to be a
port of the Linux client and it looks like all the pieces were not
included.

-- Dave