[R] 'Installation of package <package> had non-zero exit status' on R-3.2.0 (RStudio Version 0.98.1103) on Ubuntu 12.04 OS

[Anirudh Jayaraman]

I recently upgraded to *R-3.2.0* from *R-2.14.1* on *Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.*

I have been *trying to install some add-on packages* (that weren't
installed in the earlier version of R) to R-3.2.0. *but to no avail*,
getting repeated error messages. For example, *I tried installing swirl*.
Here's my output. The problem areas are highlighted in yellow. Any solution?


*> install.packages("swirl")*

Installing package into ‘/home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘testthat’, ‘httr’, ‘yaml’, ‘RCurl’

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/testthat_0.9.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 49533 bytes (48 KB)
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downloaded 48 KB

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/httr_0.6.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 247531 bytes (241 KB)
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downloaded 241 KB

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/yaml_2.1.13.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81045 bytes (79 KB)
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downloaded 79 KB

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 878616 bytes (858 KB)
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downloaded 858 KB

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/swirl_2.2.21.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 51037 bytes (49 KB)
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downloaded 49 KB

* installing *source* package ‘testthat’ ...
** package ‘testthat’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -g -O2
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c reassign.c -o reassign.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
-Wl,-z,relro -o testthat.so reassign.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/testthat/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (testthat)
* installing *source* package ‘yaml’ ...
** package ‘yaml’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c api.c -o api.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c dumper.c -o dumper.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c emitter.c -o emitter.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c implicit.c -o implicit.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c loader.c -o loader.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c parser.c -o parser.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c r-ext.c -o r-ext.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c reader.c -o reader.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c scanner.c -o scanner.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -DNDEBUG     -fpic  -g
-O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c writer.c -o writer.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
-Wl,-z,relro -o yaml.so api.o dumper.o emitter.o implicit.o loader.o
parser.o r-ext.o reader.o scanner.o writer.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/yaml/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (yaml)
* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/RCurl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/httr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ are not available for package ‘swirl’
* removing ‘/home/anirudh/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/swirl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘swirl’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpmKycFY/downloaded_packages’
*________________________________________________________*
*Anirudh Jayaraman*
M.Sc Economics (2014-16)
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai
Ph No: +91 9560476729

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