This is kind of a second question (yeah, I know), but I also get a similar
error when I try to install the RCurl package

* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/abraham/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RCurl’

The downloaded packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpNmbI03/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages() :
installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status



I never had any problems with installing packages. However, I recently
removed my windows
partition and things all weird now.


Thanks again.



On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Phil Spector <spector@stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Abraham -
>
>     sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
>
> is what you need to get the development libraries and xml2-config installed
> on your Ubuntu machine.
>
>                                       - Phil
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Abraham Mathew wrote:
>
>  Hello folks,
>>
>>
>> Here's is info on what system I'm working on.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to install the XML package. However, I end up with the
>> following
>> error message.
>>
>>  install.packages("XML")
>>>
>> ....
>> checking for xml2-config... no
>> Cannot find xml2-config
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?XML?
>> * removing ?/home/abraham/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/XML?
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>> ?/tmp/RtmpUsckPl/downloaded_packages?
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages() :
>> installation of package 'XML' had non-zero exit status
>>
>>
>> When I run library(XML), I get that there is no package named XML.
>>
>> Can anyone help diagnose the problem.
>>
>>
>> Thank You,
>> Abraham
>>
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