[R-sig-Debian] libcurl issue when manually installing R-3.3.3 on Debian 3.16.0-4-amd64

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 April 2017 at 16:33, Lucio Marcello wrote:
| I am trying to upgrade R on Debian 3.16.0-4-amd64, as the default R version is 3.1.1 (2014). When I try to run ./configure on R-3.3.3, I get an error message saying
| 
| ...
| checking for curl-config... /usr/local/bin/curl-config
| checking libcurl version ... 7.53.1
| checking curl/curl.h usability... yes
| checking curl/curl.h presence... yes
| checking for curl/curl.h... yes
| checking if libcurl is version 7 and >= 7.28.0... yes
| checking if libcurl supports https... no
| configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https

I would install the binary from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

Dirk

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