[R] error message in R 2.1.14 installation

[Marc Schwartz]

As Peter noted, you would need to install the readline-devel RPM and this is covered in the manual he referenced. Thus, via the command line, as root, you would want to use:

  yum install readline-devel

and that should resolve your problem.

In addition, Fedora 10 is around 3 years old and is no longer supported as a distribution for updates. That was the last version of Fedora that I ran before moving to OSX. Fedora has since released up through version 16. Fedora updates roughly twice per year and each version is only supported for about 13 months after release. You should really upgrade your computer to a newer version.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:38 AM, carol white wrote:

> The OS is fedora 10. It's also a 32-bit architecture.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> To: carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] error message in R 2.1.14 installation
> 
> 
> 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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