Error in R: (Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran)

Question

I\'m trying to install the \'yaml\' and \'stringi\' packages in R-Studio, and it keeps giving me these errors:

> install.packages(\"stringi\")
Package whi         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue when using an out-of-date version of R, so no binaries were available. The simple solution was to update my version of R.