Error: --With-Readline=Yes (Default) and Headers/Libs Are Not Available

error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available

Use the following command will solve this problem

./configure --with-readline=no --with-x=no

--with-x=no turns off the X Windows System . It is the GUI for the Linux and Unix-like OS. My computer has no X Windows installed, so I turn off.
But I highly recommand to install readline library before R installtion with '--with-readline=yes', as the command operation style is quitely unfriendly with '--with-readline=no' . See more libreadline installation in linux for more details

you can use the following command for more install configuration details

./configure --help

Error running R in Linux

run the following command as root before configuring R:

yum install gcc

this command will install the latest F77 compiler by GNU, then you should be able to install R as you mentioned in your question.

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If you need the old g77 for whatever reason please run this (as root)

yum install compat-gcc*

g77 compiler has stopped development so it is replaced by gfortran in gcc > 4.2.

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Unable to Install Older Version of R

Please try the following steps:

First make sure if you have libxt-dev and jdk.

dpkg -l <package name>

If not do these following commands:

sudo apt -f install && sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install fort77
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev  libblas-dev gfortran
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install gobjc++
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install libreadline-dev
sudo apt-get install libxt-dev
sudo apt-get install default-jdk

Then download your preferred R version and do as follows:

wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.1.tar.gz
mkdir R-3.2.1
mv R-3.2.1.tar.gz R-3.2.1/
cd R-3.2.1/
tar -xzvf R-3.2.1.tar.gz

Next, make another folder for R's binary version and use the to that folder here:

mkdir <full path>/R3.2.1_VERSION

Build R from source, please make sure to add the full path in prefix

./configure --prefix=<full path>/R3.2.1_OLDERVERSION --enable-R-shlib --with-blas --with-lapack
make
sudo make install

Once, you are finished, please set the environment variable to make sure the right version of R is called

export PATH=<full path>/R3.2.1_VERSION/bin:$PATH

If everything went smoothly then you can see your current R version as 3.2.1 when you run R.
If you want to switch to another version of R then change the environment variable to your preferred version of R package in your account as follows:

export PATH=<full path>/R<your preferred>_VERSION/bin:$PATH

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