On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, eric <ericst...@aol.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install the rdatamarket package. I did an
> install.packages('rdatamarket') command but got an error about half way
> through the install as follows:
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
> checking for curl-config... no
> Cannot find curl-config
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
>
> The install continued after the error but looks like it was completed. I'm
> trying to figure out what the error means and how I fix it.I think you are on Linux and missing the library headers to build against the curl. On Fedora or RedHat you would do something like 'sudo yum -y install curl-devel' and on Ubuntu it may be 'sudo apt-get install curl-dev' Andrew ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
