[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 21:20:38 CEST 2015

In that case, it seems that *libcurl* is not available for R-3.2.0 as I get
a message for

*>* *install.packages("libcurl")*

  package ‘libcurl’ is not available (for R version 3.2.0)

Or if on Terminal I run

*sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev*

Package libcurl4-openssl-dev is not available, but is referred to by
another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

*________________________________________________________*
*Anirudh Jayaraman*
M.Sc Economics (2014-16)
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai
Ph No: +91 9560476729

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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