[R] Installing RCurl: 'configure' exists but is not executable

[Rainer Schuermann]

#  ls -l `which curl-config`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6327 Oct 20 15:25 /usr/bin/curl-config



On Friday 01 November 2013 20:21:36 Michael Hannon wrote:
> The error message doesn't seem to refer to the tmp directory.  What do you
> get from:
> 
>     ls -l `which curl-config`
> 
> -- Mike
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Rainer Schuermann <Rainer.Schuermann at gmx.net
> > wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to install.packages( "RCurl" ) as root but get
> > ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable
> >
> > I remember having had something like that before on another machine and
> > tried in bash what is described here
> > http://mazamascience.com/WorkingWithData/?p=1185
> > and helped me before:
> > # mkdir ~/tmp
> > # export TMPDIR=~/tmp
> > and added, just in case,
> > # chmod u+x $TMPDIR
> >
> > which apparently does what it should
> > # ls -ld $TMPDIR
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov  1 08:59 /root/tmp
> >
> > but it doesn't help, I get the same error.
> >
> > What else can I try?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rainer
> >
> >
> > > sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_3.0.2
> >
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