install curl and readr on R

Question

Greeting dear community. I try to install readr but it gives me an error because of there is no curl. I then try to install curl and it asks for another dependency. I verify tha

Answer 1

The actual problem is:

File curl.h not found.

R suggests a solution:

Make sure the curl development library is installed, e.g. libcurl4-openssl-dev (deb) or libcurl-devel (rpm)

So, try:

sudo yum -y install libcurl-devel

Answer 2

I solved the problem on Ubuntu 14.04 by using this command

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Future users can search for the latest libcurl using:
apt-cache search libcurl