[R] Problem installing RODBC package under UBUNTU

[Luis Ridao Cruz]

R-help,

I'm now on the process of installing RODBC on UBUNTU
but an error occured. I copy-paste the output:

> install.packages("RODBC")
Warning in install.packages("RODBC") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/home/luisridaocruz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.8'
trying URL 'http://cran.ii.uib.no/src/contrib/RODBC_1.2-6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 123956 bytes (121 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 121 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'RODBC' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sql.h usability... no
checking sql.h presence... no
checking for sql.h... no
checking sqlext.h usability... no
checking sqlext.h presence... no
checking for sqlext.h... no
configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
** Removing '/home/luisridaocruz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.8/RODBC'

The downloaded packages are in
    /tmp/RtmpWqXfbD/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
In install.packages("RODBC") :
  installation of package 'RODBC' had non-zero exit status

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$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> version
               _                           
platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu         
arch           x86_64                      
os             linux-gnu                   
system         x86_64, linux-gnu           
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          8.1                         
year           2008                        
month          12                          
day            22                          
svn rev        47281                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)

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