[BioC] Problem installing goseq and RCurl

Dave Tang davetingpongtang at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 08:53:19 CET 2012


Hello,

I've been trying to install goseq on R-2.15.2 but one of the dependencies,  
RCurl is not installing. I've compiled curl and curl-config (7.28.0);  
there is also a system wide installation of curl (7.15.5) in /usr/bin/. I  
tried installing just RCurl but to no avail. I've looked online for help  
for hours but it has been hopeless. I would be extremely grateful if  
someone could let me know what is wrong.

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("RCurl")
checking for curl-config... /home/davetang/bin/bin/curl-config

[snipped]

gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o RCurl.so base64.o curl.o  
curlInit.o curl_base64.o enums.o json.o memoryManagement.o myUTF8.o  
-L/home/davetang/bin/curl/lib -lcurl -lxml2 -lz -lm
installing to /home/davetang/src/R-2.15.2/library/RCurl/libs
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Creating a generic function for 'close' from package 'base' in package  
'RCurl'
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   unable to load shared object  
'/home/davetang/src/R-2.15.2/library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so':
   libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing '/home/davetang/src/R-2.15.2/library/RCurl'

The downloaded source packages are in
         '/tmp/Rtmp9heDvL/downloaded_packages'
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making packages.html  ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
   installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status

sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.8.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.2

Many thanks in adavance,

-- 
Dave



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