[R-sig-Debian] Install R on Ubuntu with libcurl support

[Michael Coyne]

What do you have installed as far as libcurl goes? Would you mind
listing your packages and greping for libcurl entries.

Perhaps I need some libcurl debs installed when I install r-base?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 5 November 2015 at 11:11, Michael Coyne wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I'm install R from a package off of
> | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/. The install works fine
> | but it does not support libcurl as indicated by executing
> | "capabilities('libcurl')". As such, I cannot install packages from
> | HTTPS sources.
> |
> | How can I install R from a package with libcurl support? Is this
> | possible or do I need to manually build R from source and compile it
> | with libcurl support directly.
>
> Read the README in that very directory, ie at
>
>   https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> and install the pre-built R:
>
>   R> capabilities()["libcurl"]
>   libcurl
>      TRUE
>   R>
>
> I am using
>
>   edd at max:~$ COLUMNS=72 dpkg -l | grep "ii  r-base"
>   ii  r-base-core    3.2.2-1vivid amd64        GNU R core of statistical computa
>   ii  r-base-core-db 3.2.2-1vivid amd64        GNU R debug symbols for statistic
>   ii  r-base-dev     3.2.2-1vivid all          GNU R installation of auxiliary G
>   ii  r-base-html    3.2.2-1vivid all          GNU R html docs for statistical c
>   edd at max:~$
>
> Dirk
>
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