[R] troubles installing R

[Paul Hiemstra]

On 10/31/2011 06:30 PM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote:
> I am trying to install R on a pretty up-to-date CentOS system.  I have
> tried installing 2.14.0 and 2.13.2.  In both cases, the configure step
> fails, and does not produce a Makefile.  So, of course, I can't issue
> "make".
>
> The errors that I can find in config.log are, first, several missing
> files: ac_nonexistent.h, minix/config.h., readline/history.h, and
> readline/readline.h.
>
> Then, what seems to finally bring configure to a halt is the final
> error:
>
> configure:20796: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs
> are not available

Hi,

It seems that the header files/libs are not available... You probably
need to install some development libraries from the CentOS repositories.
like readline-dev or such. Installing these libraries and the header
files will be available.

regards,
Paul

> After this error, configure dumps long lists of shell variables, output
> variables, and confdefs.h -- none of which tell a whole lot, as far as I
> can see -- and then exits with a status of "1".
>
> Anyone know what this means?  I can give bigger snippets of the
> config.log, if anyone wants to see them.
>
> I have installed R on several Linux machines.  This is the first time
> I've been stumped.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Sam
>
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