As Peter noted, you would need to install the readline-devel RPM and this is 
covered in the manual he referenced. Thus, via the command line, as root, you 
would want to use:

  yum install readline-devel

and that should resolve your problem.

In addition, Fedora 10 is around 3 years old and is no longer supported as a 
distribution for updates. That was the last version of Fedora that I ran before 
moving to OSX. Fedora has since released up through version 16. Fedora updates 
roughly twice per year and each version is only supported for about 13 months 
after release. You should really upgrade your computer to a newer version.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:38 AM, carol white wrote:

> The OS is fedora 10. It's also a 32-bit architecture.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com>
> To: carol white <wht_...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-h...@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
> 
> -- 
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com

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