Problems installing the devtools package

问题:

I wish to use the devtools package. I've run the following commands:

> install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) .... > library(devtools) Error in library(devtools) : there is no package called ‘devtools’ 

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Here are the results of re-running the install.packages command after restarting the session.

> install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) Installing package into ‘/home/evanaad/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: dependencies ‘roxygen2’, ‘BiocInstaller’, ‘rstudio’ are not available also installing the dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’  trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/httr_0.2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 50183 bytes (49 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 49 Kb  trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 870915 bytes (850 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 850 Kb  trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/devtools_1.4.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 105214 bytes (102 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 102 Kb  * 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/evanaad/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/RCurl’ ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘httr’ * removing ‘/home/evanaad/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/httr’ ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘RCurl’ are not available for package ‘devtools’ * removing ‘/home/evanaad/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/devtools’  The downloaded source packages are in     ‘/tmp/RtmptvmTrA/downloaded_packages’ Warning messages: 1: In install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) :   installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status 2: In install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) :   installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status 3: In install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) :   installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status 

回答1:

As per damienfrancois's suggestion, I installed libcurl4-gnutls-dev and the problem was solved.

EDIT (@dardisco)

In your shell:

apt-get -y build-dep libcurl4-gnutls-dev apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev 

回答2:

If you are using Ubuntu/Linux:

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

回答3:

In case if you are using CentOS:

Try:

sudo yum -y install libcurl libcurl-devel 

回答4:

For my Debian Jessie box, I also included:

sudo apt-get build-dep libxml2-dev 

Hint: The r-tool console output is pretty verbose so I would check for any other dependencies.

Then, I finally got it:

> find_rtools() [1] TRUE 

回答5:

Nowadays (ubuntu 14.04) I need both:

 $ sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev  $ sudo apt-get -y install libssl-dev 

回答6:

For ubuntu users, run this command in your terminal [Tested in UBUNTU 16.04]

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

post this install libraries the way you usually do in R using

install.packages("package name") 

回答7:

Best solution to solve this. I was searching the same problem. I spent 1 day and then I got solution. Now, It is well.

Check your R version in bash terminal if you are on Ubuntu or Linux.

R --version 

then use these commands

sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get upgrade               

Now check the new version of R. Use this command

sudo apt-cache showpkg r-base 

Now update the R only.

sudo apt-get install r-base 

Now R will be updated and the error will be removed. Make sure to cd the library path where you want to install the new package. This way in bash terminal. Try to create the R directory at home folder or it will be at the default. Locate this location for package ~/R/lib/ .

R .libPaths("~/R/lib") install.packages("devtools") 

OR

install.packages("devtools", lib="~/R/lib") 

回答8:

CentOS 7: I had the libcurl and gnutls development packages installed already, but still got the "cannot load git2r.so" error when installing devtools in R. I had to "reinstall" them for it to work:

sudo yum reinstall gnutls-devel.x86_64 

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