[R] error installing package in linux R

[Roger Peng]

You need to install the development package of the readline library.  In
RedHat I believe it's called readline-devel.

-roger
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Adam Gehr wrote:

> I've been using R on windows for a number of years, so when
> I recently installed 
> Linux I wanted to install R as well. Downloading and
> installing the rpm's for R-Base and R-recommended went well
> and I seem to have a functioning R.
> 
>  I then downloaded the quadreg package and used R CMD
> INSTALL to install it. All went well up to a message:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> which stopped the installation. I checked to see whether
> readline is installed and found that it is and, furthermore,
> the arrow keys and emacs keys work fine in R. Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> I'm using R 1.5.1 on Mandrake Linux 8.2. 
> 
>   Adam Gehr
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