[R] R-installation regarding.

[Paul Hiemstra]

Hi Frederick,

The development files for readline are not available. Install them to 
get this working. For debian/ubuntu the package to install is called 
libreadline-dev or something. SUSE's package manager might have a 
similar package. Alternatively you can skip installing R from source and 
use binary packages that are available in .dev, .rpm etc from CRAN [1]. 
This ensures you have the latest version of R and that upgrading is done 
through the package manager of SUSE, minimizing your work.

cheers,
Paul

[1] http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/

fredrick devadoss wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am new to R and tried to install R in Linux system (OS: Open SUSE). After untar the source code, changed the directory, and typed the command ./configure, it was checking a list...finally it gave an error message. Here with i have enclosed the error message.
>
> Check-list goes like this:
>
> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
> checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... no
> checking for gfortran option to produce PIC... -fPIC
> checking if gfortran PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
> checking if gfortran static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
> checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking for cos in -lm... yes
> checking for sin in -lm... yes
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> checking readline/history.h usability... no
> checking readline/history.h presence... no
> checking for readline/history.h... no
> checking readline/readline.h usability... no
> checking readline/readline.h presence... no
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... yes
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available
>
> Can anyone help me in this regard?
>
> Expecting your reply and thanks in advance.
>
> Warm regards
> Fredrick.
>
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