Re: [R] How to read ./configure messages

2016-02-02 Thread Patrick Connolly
Thanks Peter. That certainly got me past that one, (Few more to go) On Mon, 01-Feb-2016 at 09:30PM -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote: |> I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development |> version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager |> installed, open it and

Re: [R] How to read ./configure messages

2016-02-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager installed, open it and search for readline. You should see a version that ends with -dev or -devel; you need to install that. HTH, Peter On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:0

[R] How to read ./configure messages

2016-02-01 Thread p_connolly
I've installed R from the tgz file since about R-0.9.x following the INSTALL instructions and have always succeeded using rpm-based OSes. With each new OS, that involved installing various additional packages before the configure script would complete. Figuring out which packages were required u