Yue, it looks like you need to compile PCRE using the -enable-utf8 flag. Check out Toby’s post about this (the PCRE error specifically): https://tdhock.github.io/blog/2017/compiling-R/
Hope this helps, Adi Adi Gherman, MCS Research Associate Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 615 N. Wolfe Street, E3007 Baltimore, MD 21205 On May 14, 2019, at 9:44 AM, yueli <yue...@126.com<mailto:yue...@126.com>> wrote: Hello, I downloaded R-3.6.0.tar.gz from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/. I tried to install R-3.6.0.tar.gz in Ubuntu system. Thanks in advance for any help! yue checking for pcre.h... yes checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no checking for pcre/pcre.h... no checking if PCRE version >= 8.20, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >= 8.20 library and headers are required [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org<mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel