Unable to install Devtools package for R studio mounted on linux redhat server

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Ruser picture Ruser · Nov 27, 2013 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I'm unable to install the devtools package in R Studio on a redhat linux server. These error messages showed up:

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/xx/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/RCurl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status

ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/home/xx/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/httr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status

ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ are not available for package ‘devtools’

I can't install the RCurl package too. I've tried to install the libcurl libraries too:

sudo yum install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo yum install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

But the system says no such packages are available available.

Is there any other way to install the devtools package? Or how can I resolve the Rcurl installation issue?

Answer

Ruser picture Ruser · Nov 29, 2013

Resolved!

Just need to install curl-config

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