Well, the INSTALL file said The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to resolve any problems. (If you obtained R using Subversion, the manual is at doc/manual/R-admin.texi.)
and this _is_ discussed there. Hint: is readline-devel installed? On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Wang Chengbin wrote: > I can't get R-2.5.1 compiled under RedHat EL5 with gcc 4.1.1. Configure > failed at the following: > > checking readline/history.h usability... no > checking readline/history.h presence... no > checking for readline/history.h... no > checking readline/readline.h usability... no > checking readline/readline.h presence... no > checking for readline/readline.h... no > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for main in -lncurses... no > checking for main in -ltermcap... no > checking for main in -ltermlib... no > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for history_truncate_file... no > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > > Thanks. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
