[R] Problem installing XML in Ubuntu 10.10

[Phil Spector]

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Abraham Mathew wrote:

> 
> This is kind of a second question (yeah, I know), but I also get a similar error when I try to install
> the RCurl package
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
> checking for curl-config... no
> Cannot find curl-config
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
> * removing ‘/home/abraham/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RCurl’
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
> ‘/tmp/RtmpNmbI03/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages() :
> installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status
> 
> 
> 
> I never had any problems with installing packages. However, I recently removed my windows
> partition and things all weird now.
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Phil Spector <spector at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>       Abraham -
>
>           sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
>
>       is what you need to get the development libraries and xml2-config installed on your Ubuntu
>       machine.
>
>                                             - Phil
> 
> 
>
>       On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Abraham Mathew wrote:
>
>       Hello folks,
> 
>
>       Here's is info on what system I'm working on.
>             sessionInfo()
>
>       R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>       Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> 
>
>       I'm trying to install the XML package. However, I end up with the following
>       error message.
>
>             install.packages("XML")
>
>       ....
>       checking for xml2-config... no
>       Cannot find xml2-config
>       ERROR: configuration failed for package ?XML?
>       * removing ?/home/abraham/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/XML?
>
>       The downloaded packages are in
>       ?/tmp/RtmpUsckPl/downloaded_packages?
>       Warning message:
>       In install.packages() :
>       installation of package 'XML' had non-zero exit status
> 
>
>       When I run library(XML), I get that there is no package named XML.
>
>       Can anyone help diagnose the problem.
> 
>
>       Thank You,
>       Abraham
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