on 02/20/2009 09:27 AM John Sorkin wrote:
> Fedora 10
> R 2.8.1
>
> I hope someone can tell me the meaning of error I received trying to install
> RODBC and how I can get around the problem.
> n.b. The error originally occurred then I was installing Rcmdr. I then tried
> to install RODBC separately and received the same error.
>
> checking sql.h usability... no
> checking sql.h presence... no
> checking for sql.h... no
> checking sqlext.h usability... no
> checking sqlext.h presence... no
> checking for sqlext.h... no
> configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/RODBC'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> /tmp/RtmpA1nKF2/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("RODBC") :
> installation of package 'RODBC' had non-zero exit status
John,
As root:
yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel
You need the unixODBC and the devel RPMs, the latter of which provides
the requisite header files.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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