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@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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