How to install ROracle on Linux I am trying to install the ROracle library. This fails:

install.packages("/storage/Downloads/ROracle_1.1-11.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

** package ‘ROracle’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: error: OCI libraries not found


I have downloaded the Oracle Instantclient RPMs and installed them via alien. Then, 

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
R CMD INSTALL ROracle_1.1-11.tar.gz

Warning: invalid package ‘ROracle_1.1-11.tar.gz
Error: ERROR: no packages specified


How can I install the ROracle package on a Ubuntu 64 system?
Try this

R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-oci-lib=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib 
  --with-oci-inc=/usr/include/oracle/12.1/client64'  ROracle_1.1-11.tar.gz