[R-SIG-Mac] Problems updating RCurl on Yosemite

[peter dalgaard]

(In case it wasn't clear: I'm not the one using homebrew. So over to Henry and dkelley -pd)

> On 23 Feb 2016, at 22:48 , Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Are you able to locate a version of libcurl using mdfind, e.g. what
> does this print:
> 
>    mdfind libcurl.4.dylib
> 
> You might also try installing homebrew curl (brew install curl) if you
> haven't already.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:39 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In general, homebrewers get to drink their own booze. (i.e., we don't support it.)
>> 
>> However, for R itself, it is necessary for me to set CURL_CONFIG in order not to pick up the curl-config from MacPorts. You might want to check if you are running into the same issue in reverse.
>> 
>> -pd
>> 
>> 
>>> On 15 Feb 2016, at 18:33 , dkelley at broadinstitute.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> Same exact problem here.
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 11:31:54 PM UTC-5, M. Henry Linder wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>> I have R 3.1.0 installed on my computer, and at some point in the past had successfully installed RCurl (1.95-4.3). However, I am now unable to update RCurl, and in spite of my best efforts at googling, I can’t seem to get things working.
>>> 
>>> The error I receive is
>>> 
>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>>  unable to load shared object '/usr/local/Cellar/r/3.1.0/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so':
>>>  dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/r/3.1.0/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so, 6): Library not loaded: libcurl.4.dylib
>>>  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.1.0/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so
>>>  Reason: image not found
>>> 
>>> It seems likely that R is looking to the system curl:
>>> 
>>> $ which curl
>>> /usr/bin/curl
>>> $ curl --version
>>> curl 7.37.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0) libcurl/7.37.1 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.5
>>> Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
>>> Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz
>>> 
>>> I have tried installing curl from Homebrew (version 7.42.1) and setting LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS (and LIBCURL_CFLAGS and LIBCURL_LIBS) to point to this version of curl, to no avail.
>>> 
>>> I’m unsure if there is a way to set these build flags from within R; is that a possible fix? Thank you for any advice you can offer!
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Henry
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Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com