installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status. Rcurl.h:4:23: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory #include <curl/curl.h>

Hi, I'm trying to install devtools::install_github("BillPetti/baseballr"). When I run it, I need to update RCurl first, but it will not let me. Please help! Here is the code.

devtools::install_github("BillPetti/baseballr")
Downloading GitHub repo BillPetti/baseballr@master
These packages have more recent versions available.
It is recommended to update all of them.
Which would you like to update?

1: All
2: CRAN packages only
3: None
4: RCurl (1.98-1.1 -> 1.98-1.2) [CRAN]

Enter one or more numbers, or an empty line to skip updates:
1
RCurl (1.98-1.1 -> 1.98-1.2) [CRAN]
Installing 1 packages: RCurl
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/troys/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
RCurl 1.98-1.1 1.98-1.2 TRUE

installing the source package ‘RCurl’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.98-1.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 699583 bytes (683 KB)
downloaded 683 KB

  • installing source package 'RCurl' ...
    ** package 'RCurl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    ** using staged installation
    ** libs

*** arch - i386
C:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-36~1.3/include" -DNDEBUG -I/include -DHAVE_LIBIDN_FIELD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_FILETIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRIVATE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HTTP_CONNECTCODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SSL_ENGINES=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_COOKIELIST=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CERTINFO=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_APPEND=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_USE_SSL=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_POSTREDIR=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SEEKDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CRLFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CERTINFO=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_USERNAME=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PASSWORD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NOPROXY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_COOKIELIST=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_LOCALPORT=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_FROM_NETWORK_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_TO_NETWORK_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_FROM_UTF8_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_WRITEDATA=1 -DCURL_STATICLIB -O3 -Wall -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c base64.c -o base64.o
In file included from base64.c:1:0:
Rcurl.h:4:23: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
#include <curl/curl.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-36~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf:208: base64.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RCurl'

  • removing 'C:/Users/troys/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/RCurl'
  • restoring previous 'C:/Users/troys/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/RCurl'
    Error: Failed to install 'baseballr' from GitHub:
    (converted from warning) installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status

Very often RCurl has problems compiling on Windows, you can try selecting option 3,and see if installation process can continue without updating or, you can wait for a binary version of RCurl to be available for Windows (which doesn't require compiling).

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Okay, thank you for the help. Do you know how long a version without compiling usually takes to become available for something like this?

Usually a few days, less than a week but there is no fixed schedule.

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