install deseq ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’

[yueli]

hi,

I try to install XML.

li@li-Lenovo:~$ R CMD INSTALL XML_3.98-1.1.tar.gz
* installing to library ‘/home/li/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
* installing *source* package ‘XML’ ...
** 成功将‘XML’程序包解包并MD5和检查
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... rm: cannot remove `a.out.dSYM': Is a directory
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 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for xml2-config... no
Cannot find xml2-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’
* removing ‘/home/li/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/XML’

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks.

[dpryan]

As the error message indicates, install xml2-config (it's probably in a package called something like "libxml2-devel" on your system).

[yueli]

Thanks.

dyryan.

You are right. This works.

Thank you!