Hi,

I downloaded the package "RCurl_1.95-4.7.tar.gz" and try to install. I put it in the right directory.

> install.packages("RCurl_1.95-4.7.tar.gz")
Installing package into ‘/home/li/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
从文件名字推断'repos = NULL'
* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
** 成功将‘RCurl’程序包解包并MD5和检查
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/li/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.0/RCurl’
警告信息：
In install.packages("RCurl_1.95-4.7.tar.gz") :
  安装程序包‘RCurl_1.95-4.7.tar.gz’时退出狀態的值不是0

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.12.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.0.2

Thanks for great help!

Yue

Yes, see A: package install issue (ubuntu 14.04, R 3.2.1). This contains the answer if you are running Ubuntu/Debian.

Also you should not download the RCurl tarball but install it with biocLite().

Thanks everyone,

Your answers have given me great help!