[R] error message in R 2.1.14 installation

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 13:38 , carol white wrote:

> The OS is fedora 10. It's also a 32-bit architecture.
> 

10? Aren't they at 15 or 16 by now? 

I guess you need 

yum install readline-devel

or thereabouts.

> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> To: carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] error message in R 2.1.14 installation
> 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 13:03 , carol white wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I tried to install R.2.14.1 but when running ./configure command, I got the following error message 
>> 
>> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available
>> 
>> All checking prior to this error message passed without any problem (see below). 
> 
> You really should read the R Installation and Administration manual, and for that matter also the posting guide (e.g.: what OS is this? Debian? RedHat? Suse? Slackware?).
> 
> Most likely you missed the need to install the _developer_ package for readline (called readline-dev or something like that) so that the C header files are not installed.
> 
> -pd
> 
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Peter Dalgaard, Professor
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com