R: error installing packages UBUNTU - Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, …) : unable to load shared object

Question

I\'m having problem installing any package, also from package archive. In this case showing error trying to install ggplot2:

* installing *source* package ‘g         


        

Answer 1

Thank you Dirk, your advice to install the package via the ubuntu terminal solved my problem as well: I had an almost identical error message when I was trying to install reshape2 on Ubuntu 15.10.

I just, 1) uninstalled the currently installed version of reshape2 through the R terminal (if you use R-Studio you can also do this in the "packages" window where the packages are listed), 2) run sudo apt-get install r-cran-reshape2 in the ubuntu terminal, 3) restarted the computer.