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 the same problem on centos 7. I fixed it by installing the libcurl-devel. The mistake I had made was that I just had libcurl installed and not it's development packages.