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Reputation: 21

Installing RMySQL for RStudio Server on Ubuntu Server 12.04

I've been attempting to install RMySQL in RStudio for quite some time now. I've installed the DBI dependency and have attempted to install RMySQL with the following error:

Configuration error: could not find the MySQL installation include and/or library directories. Manually specify the location of the MySQL libraries and the header files and re-run R CMD INSTALL.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Define and export the 2 shell variables PKG_CPPFLAGS and PKG_LIBS to include the directory for header files (*.h) and libraries, for example (using Bourne shell syntax):

    export PKG_CPPFLAGS="-I" export PKG_LIBS="-L -lmysqlclient"

    Re-run the R INSTALL command:

    R CMD INSTALL RMySQL_.tar.gz

  2. Alternatively, you may pass the configure arguments --with-mysql-dir= (distribution directory) or --with-mysql-inc= (where MySQL header files reside) --with-mysql-lib= (where MySQL libraries reside) in the call to R INSTALL --configure-args='...'

    R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-mysql-dir=DIR' RMySQL_.tar.gz

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RMySQL’ * removing ‘/home/zlau/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/RMySQL’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘/home/zlau/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

This is a common error that is said to be resolved by installing the following package from the Ubuntu command line: libmysqlclient-dev (or some version of it). I've attempted several times to install with "sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev" Each time I receive the following error a 404 not found error for the following...

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/precise-updates/main libmysqlclient-dev i386 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. I cannot post images yet.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1189

Answers (1)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 2347

This has nothing to do with R or MySQL. You have a configuration error in your Ubuntu APT sources (the configuration of the repositories). I'm no expert on APT, so forgive me if I'm not getting the details right, but I think I can put you on the right track. If I execute:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

on my machine with Ubuntu 12.04 on it, then one of the lines I see is:

Get:1 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main libmysqlclient-dev amd64 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 [1,397 kB]

Note how there is a space before "precise-updates/main". In my "/etc/apt/sources.list" file I have entries like:

deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted

Also with a space before "precise". Why don't you check your sources.list file...

Upvotes: 2

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