Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-06 Thread gregory benison
> > 1. If you do not have unixODBC installed, you will get an error message > regarding a missing ODBC driver manager, if as you have done here, that test > is first rather than second. If the test for the headers comes first, and no driver manager is installed, configure exits with an error bef

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi Gregory, See below. On Jan 5, 2012, at 4:20 PM, gregory benison wrote: >> As Duncan noted, the message is pretty clear in that the ODBC header files >> are missing, which are required to compile RODBC from source. On RH based >> Linuxen, this requires the installation of the unixODBC-devel

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-05 Thread gregory benison
> As Duncan noted, the message is pretty clear in that the ODBC header files > are missing, which are required to compile RODBC from source. On RH based > Linuxen, this requires the installation of the unixODBC-devel RPM, much as > one would need to have other *-devel RPMs (eg. readline-devel) i

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-04 Thread gregory benison
> > One thing R could do better is to provide a standard way to view README and > similar files before installing a package.  That might have helped here. > Agreed... right now, the R documentation points to a straightforward, one-line way to download and install packages from the R command line,

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jan 4, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 03 janvier 2012 à 11:39 -0800, gregory benison a écrit : >> If one attempts to install RODBC (via install.packages('RODBC')) >> without having an ODBC driver installed, this error message results: >> >> checking sqlext.h presence..

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 03 janvier 2012 à 11:39 -0800, gregory benison a écrit : > If one attempts to install RODBC (via install.packages('RODBC')) > without having an ODBC driver installed, this error message results: > > checking sqlext.h presence... no > checking for sqlext.h... no > configure: error: "ODBC h

Re: [R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-01-03 2:39 PM, gregory benison wrote: If one attempts to install RODBC (via install.packages('RODBC')) without having an ODBC driver installed, this error message results: checking sqlext.h presence... no checking for sqlext.h... no configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not fo

[R] RODBC installation: error message

2012-01-03 Thread gregory benison
If one attempts to install RODBC (via install.packages('RODBC')) without having an ODBC driver installed, this error message results: 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 '