I am using RStudio and have installed all the needed R packages through nix. Within RStudio I am able to install R packages with the exception of open SSL; it traces back to curl. Installing specifically curl, the following error appears in RStudio’s console:
- installing source package ‘curl’ …
** package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing: - deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
- rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
- csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris)
If libcurl is already installed, check that ‘pkg-config’ is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars=‘INCLUDE_DIR=… LIB_DIR=…’
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’
- removing ‘/home/sandor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/curl’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
In my various readings and searches, R is looking for the curl library in the system. I have installed the following: curl-7.79.1, curlcpp-1.4, openssl-1.1.1l, and r-openssl-1.4.5. None of these packages solves the above error. I have installed a number of R packages successfully, e.g. dplyr.
Does anyone have a suggestion? I am probably overlooking the obvious…
Sandor