Error installing swirl on Linux

[hvillac]

Running R 3.0.2 on RHEL 6.4 - install.packages("swirl") gives me this:

install.packages("swirl") Installing package into ‘/home/hvilla/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- also installing the dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ and then after some other messages that look good

• installing source package ‘RCurl’ ... \ package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
• removing ‘/home/hvilla/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/RCurl’ ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
• removing ‘/home/hvilla/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/httr’ ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ are not available for package ‘swirl’
• removing ‘/home/hvilla/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/swirl’

The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpNhKkxg/downloaded_packages’

How can I overcome this?

[ncarchedi]

@WilCrofter Would you mind chiming in on this when you have a chance?

[WilCrofter]

You may need to install libcurl4-openssl-dev

On ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

I imagine you use yum on RHEL. Reposting ubuntu & mint setup below. Debian should be similar.

[WilCrofter]

• Add the newest Ubuntu archive public key to your system:
  • sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys E084DAB9
  • See http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ for details.
• Add a CRAN repository to your system. For example, to add the CMU respository:
  • sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu saucy/”
  • or use the graphical installer, mintUpdate Edit software sources
  • See http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ for details.
• Install build-essential (needed by gcc to compile Rpackages containing C/C++ code)
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential
• Install curl and libcurl4-openssl-dev (which will be needed for RCurl)
  • sudo apt-get install curl
  • sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
• Install R
  • sudo apt-get install r-base
• Install RStudio if you are going to use it.
  • http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/desktop
• Install swirl from the R prompt
  • install.packages(“swirl”)
  • or install from RStudio’s graphical interface. Be sure that install dependencies is checked.

[ncarchedi]

Assuming this solved @hvillac's problem. Closing the issue now.