Can't find gfortran 4.8 to build package

Question

I\'m trying to install the deldir package in R via install.packages(\"deldir\",type = \'source\') but am getting the following error message (this is O

Answer 1

I was getting the same error when installing the igraph package in R on Manjaro Linux.

It was due to the absence of a Fortran compiler (gfortran I think). I found out that gfortran package is named as gcc-fortran in Manjaro repo and many other (GNU) Linux repos. So, I just installed gcc-fortran package and then restarted RStudio and igraph package installed without any issues.