Problems installing the devtools package

Question

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

> install.packages(\"devtools\", dependencies = TRUE)
....
> library         


        

Answer 1

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")