[R] Problem installing XML in Ubuntu 10.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 25 April 2011 at 17:39, Abraham Mathew wrote:
| Hello folks,
| 
| 
| Here's is info on what system I'm working on.
| > sessionInfo()
| R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
| Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
| 
| 
| I'm trying to install the XML package. However, I end up with the following
| error message.

You can install the prebuilt package

    r-cran-xml

directly from the Ubuntu repositories.  

Dirk

 
| > install.packages("XML")
| ....
| checking for xml2-config... no
| Cannot find xml2-config
| ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’
| * removing ‘/home/abraham/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/XML’
| 
| The downloaded packages are in
| ‘/tmp/RtmpUsckPl/downloaded_packages’
| Warning message:
| In install.packages() :
| installation of package 'XML' had non-zero exit status
| 
| 
| When I run library(XML), I get that there is no package named XML.
| 
| Can anyone help diagnose the problem.
| 
| 
| Thank You,
| Abraham
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