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 similar problem. First, you need to look into the config.log file to find out the real error. For example, mine is shown as:

/usr/include/string.h:548:5: error: unknown type name '__locale_t' __locale_t __loc)

Which would be a problem due to the gcc I used. Then you can solve the problem based solving this issue, in my case, change another version of gcc works for me.