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Ravi
Ravi

Reputation: 3303

R Packages Installation Error on Ubuntu

I am trying to install the R package "colorspace" in Ubuntu Linux from local repository as follows:

    install.packages("/home/colorspace_1.2-4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

This throws the following error:

Installing package into '/home/vertica/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.0'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'colorspace' ...
** package 'colorspace' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'colorspace'
* removing '/home/vertica/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.0/colorspace'
Warning message:
In install.packages("/home/colorspace_1.2-4.tar.gz",  :
  installation of package '/home/colorspace_1.2-4.tar.gz' had non-zero exit      
status

Could someone help me with this issue?

Thank you.

Ravi

Upvotes: 0

Views: 339

Answers (1)

Spacedman
Spacedman

Reputation: 94277

Its saying it can't find "make", which makes me think you don't have all the compilers and so on that you need to build packages from source.

Install the "build-essential" package, something like:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential

from your command line (not from R!)

Upvotes: 1

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