[R] problem installing RdbiPgSQL for 2.4

Robert Gentleman rgentlem at fhcrc.org
Tue Oct 3 19:53:04 CEST 2006



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.


> 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
> _____________________________________________________________
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> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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