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trying to install the devtools package in R I run into trouble 

> install.packages("devtools",dependencies=TRUE)
Installing package into ‘/home/evandar/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  dependency ‘BiocInstaller’ is not available
also installing the dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/httr_0.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 196942 bytes (192 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 192 Kb

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 870915 bytes (850 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 850 Kb

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/devtools_1.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 112272 bytes (109 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 109 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/evandar/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RCurl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/home/evandar/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/httr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ are not available for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/home/evandar/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/devtools’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpbsrCjU/downloaded_packages’

I found this post here

Problems installing the devtools package

and installed curl but that hasn't solved my problem as install.packages is till not working with the error message being the message displayed above. Can somebody maybe suggest how I can circumvent this problem or what I am doing wrong? I am runnign on R 3.1.1 and Ubuntu 14.04.

If i type curl-config from the comment I get 

The program 'curl-config' can be found in the following packages:
 * libcurl4-gnutls-dev
 * libcurl4-nss-dev
 * libcurl4-openssl-dev
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

which probably means the problem is not the same as in the duplicate. I installed curl with 

apt-get -y build-dep libcurl4-gnutls-dev
apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
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  • How did you install `curl`? – Andrie Jul 28 '14 at 11:28
  • http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocInstaller.html BiocInstaller might not be at cran, but you can get it from there – James Tobin Jul 28 '14 at 14:42
  • Type `curl-config` at the command line. If "not found" then you haven't installed the -dev package as detailed in the duplicate reference question. – Spacedman Jul 28 '14 at 14:53
  • if i type that I get The program 'curl-config' can be found in the following packages: * libcurl4-gnutls-dev * libcurl4-nss-dev * libcurl4-openssl-dev Try: sudo apt-get install – user3419669 Jul 28 '14 at 16:29

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