[R] Error When Installing the RODBC Package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Abraham Mathew wrote:

> I'm running R in Ubuntu 10.10 and am trying to install the RODBC package.
> However, I get the following error message:
>
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RODBC?
> * removing ?/home/amathew/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RODBC?
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> ?/tmp/RtmpekzPOQ/downloaded_packages?
> Warning message:
> In install.packages() :
>  installation of package 'RODBC' had non-zero exit status
>
> Can anyone help?
>
>
> I know I've encountered this problem in the past, it's just that I'm not
> sure
> how I fixed it a year ago. If I remember right, I don't have a package
> installed
> that is necessary for RODBC. What is that package?

No idea: the information is in the output you failed to show us, in 
the lines before the ERROR message.

If all else fails, you could try reading the RODBC manual: part of the 
package and at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RODBC/RODBC.pdf

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