[R] error message in R 2.1.14 installation

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 13:03 , carol white wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried to install R.2.14.1 but when running ./configure command, I got the following error message 
> 
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available
> 
> All checking prior to this error message passed without any problem (see below). 

You really should read the R Installation and Administration manual, and for that matter also the posting guide (e.g.: what OS is this? Debian? RedHat? Suse? Slackware?).

Most likely you missed the need to install the _developer_ package for readline (called readline-dev or something like that) so that the C header files are not installed.

-pd

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