[R] Error when installing packages

[G.Maubach at gmx.de]

Hi All,

I try to install packages on Debian GNU Linux 8 (Kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64).

My sessionInfo() is

R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.1

Installing the following packages

Warning in install.packages :
  packages ‘excel.link’, ‘installr’ are not available (for R version 3.3.1)
Warning in install.packages :
  dependencies ‘latticist’, ‘graph’, ‘RBGL’, ‘pkgDepTools’, ‘Rgraphviz’ are not available
also installing the dependencies ‘RCurl’, ‘RWekajars’

results in the following messages:

(1)
* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config

(2)
* installing *source* package ‘RWekajars’ ...
./configure: 1: ./configure: /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/bin/java: not found
./configure: 50: test: -ge: unexpected operator
./configure: 51: test: -eq: unexpected operator
Need at least Java version 1.6/6.0.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RWekajars’

Annotation: I have openjdk-8-jre installed.

(3)
* installing *source* package ‘cairoDevice’ ...
ERROR: gtk+2. not found by pkg-config.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘cairoDevice’

(4)
* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 1.1-10
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 622
checking for gdal-config... no
no
configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’

(5)
* installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ...
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgeos: 0.3-19
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 524
checking for geos-config... no
no
configure: error: geos-config not found or not executable.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’

... and much more.

Do all these error messages have something in common?

How could I fix the installation?

Kind regards

Georg