Installing R on Linux: configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https

Question

My issue is this:

Rigth now i have R 3.2 wooden xmas tree version, but theres some packages I need that dosent work on this version, so when i try to install the new

Answer 1

I had similar problem, and I solve it by installing libcurl4-openssl-dev. This is one of packages, which R could use (R manual https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/curl/index.html)