[R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

Wed Dec 24 00:16:52 CET 2014

Do you have curl installed? RCurl just uses your external-to-R system installation of the curl software to do its real work.
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On December 23, 2014 1:38:34 PM PST, maxbre <mbressan at arpa.veneto.it> wrote:
>I must say I'm pretty new to Linux Debian and R so I might miss here
>reporting some relevant information (just in case, sorry for that!);
>I've
>been looking around the web and also onto this mailing list - and
>indeed
>this topic has been already covered-, but still I can't find any useful
>solution to my problem (so I just hope someone can help me somehow)
>
>by trying to install RCurl I got the following error message:
>
>#########################
>install.packages('RCurl')
>Installing package into ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>provo con l'URL
>'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.5.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 878651 bytes (858 Kb)
>URL aperto
>==================================================
>downloaded 858 Kb
>
>* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
>** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>checking for curl-config... no
>Cannot find curl-config
>ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
>* removing ‘/home/max/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RCurl’
>Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status
>
>The downloaded source packages are in
>	‘/tmp/RtmpYJSYzn/downloaded_packages’
>
>###############################
>
>and this is the content of my config.log
>
>###############################
>
>This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
>running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>
>It was created by configure, which was
>generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
>
>  $ ./configure 
>
>## --------- ##
>## Platform. ##
>## --------- ##
>
>hostname = max-debian
>uname -m = x86_64
>uname -r = 3.2.0-4-amd64
>uname -s = Linux
>uname -v = #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2
>
>/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
>/bin/uname -X     = unknown
>
>/bin/arch              = unknown
>/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
>/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
>/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
>/bin/machine           = unknown
>/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
>/bin/universe          = unknown
>
>PATH: /usr/local/bin
>PATH: /usr/bin
>PATH: /bin
>PATH: /usr/local/games
>PATH: /usr/games
>
>
>## ----------- ##
>## Core tests. ##
>## ----------- ##
>
>configure:1786: checking for curl-config
>configure:1819: result: no
>
>## ---------------- ##
>## Cache variables. ##
>## ---------------- ##
>
>ac_cv_env_CC_set=
>ac_cv_env_CC_value=
>ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
>ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
>ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
>ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
>ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
>ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
>ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
>ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
>ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
>ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
>ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
>ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
>ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
>ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
>ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
>ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
>
>## ----------------- ##
>## Output variables. ##
>## ----------------- ##
>
>
>CC=''
>CFLAGS=''
>CPP=''
>CPPFLAGS=''
>CURL_CFLAGS=''
>CURL_CONFIG=''
>CURL_LIBS=''
>DEFINES=''
>DEFS=''
>ECHO_C=''
>ECHO_N='-n'
>ECHO_T=''
>EXEEXT=''
>LDFLAGS=''
>LIBOBJS=''
>LIBS=''
>LTLIBOBJS=''
>OBJEXT=''
>PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
>PACKAGE_NAME=''
>PACKAGE_STRING=''
>PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
>PACKAGE_URL=''
>PACKAGE_VERSION=''
>PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
>SHELL='/bin/bash'
>ac_ct_CC=''
>bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
>build_alias=''
>datadir='${datarootdir}'
>datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
>docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
>dvidir='${docdir}'
>exec_prefix='NONE'
>host_alias=''
>htmldir='${docdir}'
>includedir='${prefix}/include'
>infodir='${datarootdir}/info'
>libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
>libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
>localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
>localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
>mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
>oldincludedir='/usr/include'
>pdfdir='${docdir}'
>prefix='NONE'
>program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
>psdir='${docdir}'
>sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
>sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
>sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
>target_alias=''
>
>## ----------- ##
>## confdefs.h. ##
>## ----------- ##
>
>/* confdefs.h */
>#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
>#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
>#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
>#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
>#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
>#define PACKAGE_URL ""
>
>configure: exit 1
>
>##########################
>
>and finally this is my sessionInfo()
>
>############################
>
>R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
>Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8       
> [4] LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8   
>LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8   
>[7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C 
>            
>[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8
>LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base   
> 
>
>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>[1] tools_3.1.2
>
>
>#####################
>
>
>can anyone possibly give me some indications on how to proceed in order
>to
>sort out this problem?
>any help much appreciated
>
>bye
>
>
>
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