How to update RCurl and curl to the version on the host machine?

问题

Initially I was trying to use devtools::install_github("EdwinTh/padr") where I got the following error:

Error in curl::new_handle() : An unknown option was passed in to libcurl

After some time I found out that devtools uses curl/RCurl which wraps the current version of curlon the host machine.

The host(Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS) machine version of curl is:

1$ curl -V curl 7.61.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.61.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libssh2/1.8.0 librtmp/2.3

where curlis located in:

12$ which curl /usr/local/bin/curl

and is working fine when using curl::new_handle()directly from the terminal

In comparison the curl/RCurl version is:

> RCurl::curlVersion()
$age
[1] 3

$version
[1] "7.35.0"`

I'm assuming that this might be the underlying issue. My problem now is how to let Rs curl/RCurl point to the corresponding version.

I have tried everything I found so far on that topic for R like:

install.packages("RCurl", type="source") and install.packages("curl", type="source")

as well as adjusting curlon the host machine:

wget https://libssh2.org/download/libssh2-1.8.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf llibssh2-1.8.0.tar.gz
cd libssh2-1.8.0
./configure
make
sudo make install 

wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.61.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf curl-7.61.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.61.0
./configure --with-libssh2=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

But I always get the same version for curl/RCurl 7.35.0 instead of 7.61.0.

Appreciate any insights!

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51571901/how-to-update-rcurl-and-curl-to-the-version-on-the-host-machine

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