[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

Thu Apr 30 20:38:16 CEST 2015

On 30/04/2015 2:12 PM, Anirudh Jayaraman wrote:
> 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?

The error message looks pretty clear:  the installer couldn't find 
curl-config.  Just install whatever package is necessary to get libcurl, 
and make sure curl-config is on your path, and you should get past that 
error, and on to the next one.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>
> *> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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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