My guess is that you do not have the appropriate ODBC development library for your operating system installed. It is not unusual that R packages that provide interfaces to outside APIs require that those resources be installed and configured in the operating system before the relevant R library can be installed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On August 20, 2014 3:43:44 PM PDT, William Deese <williamde...@gmail.com> wrote: >I tried installing RODBC but got the following message: > >Checks were yes until the following > >checking sql.h usability... no >checking sql.h presence... no >checking for sql.h... no >checking sqlext.h usability... no >checking sqlext.h presence... no >checking for sqlext.h... no >configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found" >ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RODBC’ >* removing ‘/home/bill/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RODBC’ > >Apparently RODBC was there when R was installed, but library() shows >it is not there now, although the DBI package is. Best ideas for >installing RODBC? > >Bill > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.