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

[M. Henry Linder]

@dkelley: I can’t specifically recall how I resolved this…but I do have the following:

$ grep -i curl ~/.zshrc
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.34.0/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Henry
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 4:55 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (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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