Re: [R] install.packages problem

2011-11-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is something missing from your (unstated) Linux installation. curl-config is part of the original libcurl sources, but Linux distributors tend to separte it out. *How* they do so is non-standard: Fedora and other RPM-based distributions tend to use libcurl-devel Debian and related tend

Re: [R] install.packages problem

2011-11-05 Thread Andrew Z
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, eric wrote: > I'm trying to install the rdatamarket package. I did an > install.packages('rdatamarket') command but got an error about half way > through the install as follows: > > * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... > checking for curl-config... no > Cannot