[R] encountered errors while installing additional packages

[gvsa123]

Thank for the reply Jeff! I got a notice that my post needed moderator 
approval, so I wasn't sure where and how I can mark it as solved.

I uninstalled everything first, and realized I could get all of the 
additional packages I needed off the Mint repos, and everything worked 
well from thereon. Initially I had installed R from the Mint repos and 
then used CLI to install additional packages. That's when the problem 
occurred. I knew from my last system, that everything worked with no 
glitches, so I was trying to figure out what I did differently this time 
(it was the CLI). I guess there were incompatibilities with versions?

On 2019-07-13 4:30 a.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> These are the wrong diagnostics, and it looks to me like the packages you are trying to install are unrelated.
>
> Try installing one package and show us the output that follows that request, not the warnings. Mention if you are using as any elevated privileges and give the output of sessionInfo().
>
> Note that the curl package has system requirements [1] that must be addressed outside of R before that package can be installed.
>
> What do you mean by "I know this worked for me before. Not sure what went wrong this time." What changed between then and now? New computer? New version of R? Upgraded  OS?
>
> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/curl/index.html
>
> On July 12, 2019 8:53:26 AM PDT, gvsa123 <gvsa123 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there. I need help trying to figure out why R won't see the
>> additional packages I installed while working on text (e.g. tm,
>> stringr,
>> wordcloud)
>>
>> I know I got some errors along the way, and tried solutions to direct R
>>
>> to my local directory but to no avail... I'm not sure what kind of
>> output is needed to help me but here is what warnings() give out:
>>
>>>> warnings()
>>> Warning messages:
>>> 1: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 2: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘sys’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 3: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘digest’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 4: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘rlang’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 5: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 6: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘slam’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 7: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘filehash’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 8: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘Rpoppler’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 9: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘SnowballC’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 10: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘askpass’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 11: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘xml2’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 12: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘antiword’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 13: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘testthat’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 14: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘qpdf’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 15: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘tm’ had non-zero exit status
>>> 16: In install.packages("tm", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>>    installation of package ‘pdftools’ had non-zero exit status
>> Any ideas? I know this worked for me before. Not sure what went wrong
>> this time. Only thing I can think of is the installation saying that
>> the
>> directory was not writeable, so I said 'yes' to install in my personal
>> folder. Created the .Renviron to point to my personal directory and it
>> shows in the list when running .libPath()
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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