[R] Installing miniCRAN on Debian

[G.Maubach at gmx.de]

Hi All,

I am installng miniCRAN on Debian GNU Linux 8 Jessie (Linux analytics7 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.5.4-1~bpo8+1 (2016-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux) and R 3.3.0 

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> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8       
 [4] LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C              
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.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_3.3.0
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After running

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libhunspell-dev

and calling

install.packages(pkgs = "miniCRAN", repos = "http://cran.csiro.au", dependencies = TRUE)

I get the message

------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because hunspell was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libhunspell-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: hunspell-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * brew: hunspell (Mac OSX)
If hunspell is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a hunspell.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'

Running

find / -name hunspell.pc

gives

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/hunspell.pc

and running

find / -name pkg-config

gives

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pkg-config

How do I need to configure R correctly to get miniCRAN running?

Kind regards

Georg