symphony lib and headers for debian to install Rsymphony

You may need more libraries -- the r-cran-rsymphony package which I maintain has

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), r-base-dev (>= 3.1.2), \   cdbs, coinor-libsymphony-dev, coinor-libcgl-dev, autotools-dev

You can ignore cdbs etc if you are not building a package, but you probably want the two coinor-*-dev packages.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and R 3.1. I wanted to update package Rsymphony to version 0.1-19 and got a similar error message as above.

Following Dirk's advise I did apt-get install coinor-libcgl-dev which also installed coinor-libclp-dev, coinor-libcoinutils-dev and coinor-libosi-dev. After that I could install Rsymphony using R's installation mechanism.

apt-get install r-cran-rsymphony worked but installed version 0.1-17-1.

Please install the packages for the library first:

apt-get install coinor-libsymphony-dev coinor-libsymphony-doc

Then install the package from CRAN:

apt-get install r-cran-rsymphony

That did the trick for me:

[Sun|11:39:13][tir on atlas2:~]-> sudo apt-get install r-cran-rsymphonyReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree
Reading state information... DoneSuggested packages: r-cran-runitThe following NEW packages will be installed: r-cran-rsymphony0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.Need to get 1,748 kB of archives.After this operation, 3,919 kB of additional disk space will be used.Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe r-cran-rsymphony amd64 0.1-17-1 [1,748 kB]Fetched 1,748 kB in 54s (32.1 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package r-cran-rsymphony.(Reading database ... 348392 files and directories currently installed.)Preparing to unpack .../r-cran-rsymphony_0.1-17-1_amd64.deb ...Unpacking r-cran-rsymphony (0.1-17-1) ...Setting up r-cran-rsymphony (0.1-17-1) ...[Sun|11:40:26][tir on atlas2:~]->