Addition for howto install for linux

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Under ubuntu linux with the default installation of postgresql, simply doing 
install.packages('RPostgreSQL')in R fails with unspecified errors. 

The problem is solved by installing the postgres server dev package before 
retrying the install.packages command in R.  eg sudo apt-get install 
postgresql-server-dev-8.4 for postgresql version 8.4.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Jul 2012 at 11:37

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And for postgresql 9.3?
I have install postgresql 9.3 and devel versión but I obtain an error in 
compilation of rpostgresql:

...
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/RPostgreSQL/libs/RPostgreSQL.so':
  /usr/lib64/R/library/RPostgreSQL/libs/RPostgreSQL.so: undefined symbol: PQpass
Error: loading failed
Ejecución interrumpida
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/RPostgreSQL’

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Dec 2013 at 4:03