Unable to install Quandl under R version 3.2?

Question

I'm running R version 3.2 because it is a requirement for ggplots2.

However it seems that I cannot install package "Quandl". I'm getting the following warnings:

No package 'libcurl' found
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)

and some others. The result is:

Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘Quandl’ had non-zero exit status

My assumption is that the newer R version is not yet supported by the required dependency.

What should I do?

Answer 1

You need to install libcurl4-openssl-dev operating system package. You can use this command on Debian-based OS (including Ubuntu and Mint):

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev