Hi all,

I am having a lot of difficulties installing the R package Genomic
Features.  When I first tried to install it using the command:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("GenomicFeatures")

I got issues about RCurl not being able to install.  I followed the
instructions from this
thread<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10965755/genomicfeatures-package-installation-trouble>
by
installing libcurl <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/> and
libxml<http://www.xmlsoft.org/>from source to my /home/fong/usr/local.
 I then tried to install the
dependencies independently, I ran into errors for RCurl

install.packages('RCurl')
....
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [RCurl.so] Error 1ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RCurl’*

I am thinking this is because I installed libcurl in a non-standard
directory, /home/fong/usr/local, there it is complaining about that.  How
do I make R see where I installed libcurl?  Or is there another problem
that I am missing here?

Fong

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sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     [5]
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    [7] LC_PAPER=C
          LC_NAME=C                  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C
LC_TELEPHONE=C            [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.2.1 XML_3.9-4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.14.2
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