The error message is quite clear: It says that you are missing
"curl-config" on your system:
> checking for curl-config... no
> Cannot find curl-config
On my Fedora system I would do:
yum whatprovides curl-config
and I would get:
libcurl-devel-7.24.0-2.fc17.x86_64 : Files needed for building
applications with libcurl
So I would then do:
sudo yum install libcurl-devel
I don't know what the appropriate syntax on Debian would be; on Ubuntu I
believe you say "aptget" rather than "yum". Whatever; something similar
should be available to you.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 24/12/14 10:38, maxbre 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’
<SNIP>
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Rolf Turner
Technical Editor ANZJS
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