Problems installing the devtools package

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I wish to use the devtools package  I ve run the following commands    gt  install packages  devtools   dependencies   TRUE        gt  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    gt  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

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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

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For R version 4 0 2 on Ubuntu 18 0 4  I had to install the the libgit2-dev package  sudo apt-get install libgit2-dev  After that  worked like a charm

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Centos 6 8  this work like charm for me   install libcurl  yum -y install libcurl libcurl-devel restart R Software  rstudio-server verify-installation

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If you are using Ubuntu Linux   sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev

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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

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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    gt  find rtools    1  TRUE

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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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I found solution by seeing errors by R-Studio when I tried to install devtools package   Basically Error is because of dependence libraries not installed in linux Look at ANTICONF ERROR Below Installing package into     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6     as    lib    is unspecified  also installing the dependencies    curl        gh        openssl        xml2        usethis        covr        httr        roxygen2        rversions      trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib curl 4 3 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 673779 bytes  657 KB                                                     downloaded 657 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib gh 1 1 0 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 29043 bytes  28 KB                                                     downloaded 28 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib openssl 1 4 2 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 1204168 bytes  1 1 MB                                                     downloaded 1 1 MB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib xml2 1 3 2 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 271876 bytes  265 KB                                                     downloaded 265 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib usethis 1 6 1 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 255052 bytes  249 KB                                                     downloaded 249 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib covr 3 5 0 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 146148 bytes  142 KB                                                     downloaded 142 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib httr 1 4 2 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 159950 bytes  156 KB                                                     downloaded 156 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib roxygen2 7 1 1 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 254118 bytes  248 KB                                                     downloaded 248 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib rversions 2 0 2 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 41558 bytes  40 KB                                                     downloaded 40 KB  trying URL  https   cloud r-project org src contrib devtools 2 3 1 tar gz  Content type  application x-gzip  length 373604 bytes  364 KB                                                     downloaded 364 KB    installing  source  package    curl           package    curl    successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked    using staged installation Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path  Perhaps you should add the directory containing  libcurl pc  to the PKG CONFIG PATH environment variable No package  libcurl  found Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path  Perhaps you should add the directory containing  libcurl pc  to the PKG CONFIG PATH environment variable No package  libcurl  found Using PKG CFLAGS  Using PKG LIBS -lcurl ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR --------------------------- Configuration failed because libcurl was not found  Try installing    deb    libcurl4-openssl-dev    Debian  Ubuntu  etc     rpm  libcurl-devel  Fedora  CentOS  RHEL     csw  libcurl dev  Solaris  If libcurl is already installed  check that  pkg-config  is in your PATH and PKG CONFIG PATH contains a libcurl pc file  If pkg-config is unavailable you can set INCLUDE DIR and LIB DIR manually via  R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars  INCLUDE DIR     LIB DIR      -------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR  configuration failed for package    curl      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 curl    Warning in install packages     installation of package    curl    had non-zero exit status   installing  source  package    openssl           package    openssl    successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked    using staged installation Using PKG CFLAGS  ---------------------------  ANTICONF  -------------------------------- Configuration failed because openssl was not found  Try installing    deb    libssl-dev    Debian  Ubuntu  etc     rpm  openssl-devel  Fedora  CentOS  RHEL     csw  libssl dev  Solaris     brew  openssl 1 1  Mac OSX  If openssl is already installed  check that  pkg-config  is in your PATH and PKG CONFIG PATH contains a openssl pc file  If pkg-config is unavailable you can set INCLUDE DIR and LIB DIR manually via  R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars  INCLUDE DIR     LIB DIR      --------------------------  ERROR MESSAGE  --------------------------- tools version c 1 10  fatal error  openssl opensslv h  No such file or directory     1    include  lt openssl opensslv h gt                                        compilation terminated  -------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR  configuration failed for package    openssl      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 openssl    Warning in install packages     installation of package    openssl    had non-zero exit status   installing  source  package    xml2           package    xml2    successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked    using staged installation Package libxml-2 0 was not found in the pkg-config search path  Perhaps you should add the directory containing  libxml-2 0 pc  to the PKG CONFIG PATH environment variable No package  libxml-2 0  found Package libxml-2 0 was not found in the pkg-config search path  Perhaps you should add the directory containing  libxml-2 0 pc  to the PKG CONFIG PATH environment variable No package  libxml-2 0  found Using PKG CFLAGS  Using PKG LIBS -lxml2 ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR --------------------------- Configuration failed because libxml-2 0 was not found  Try installing   deb    libxml2-dev    Debian  Ubuntu  etc     rpm  libxml2-devel  Fedora  CentOS  RHEL     csw  libxml2 dev  Solaris  If libxml-2 0 is already installed  check that  pkg-config  is in your PATH and PKG CONFIG PATH contains a libxml-2 0 pc file  If pkg-config is unavailable you can set INCLUDE DIR and LIB DIR manually via  R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars  INCLUDE DIR     LIB DIR      -------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR  configuration failed for package    xml2      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 xml2    Warning in install packages     installation of package    xml2    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependencies    curl        openssl    are not available for package    httr      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 httr    Warning in install packages     installation of package    httr    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependency    xml2    is not available for package    roxygen2      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 roxygen2    Warning in install packages     installation of package    roxygen2    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependencies    curl        xml2    are not available for package    rversions      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 rversions    Warning in install packages     installation of package    rversions    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependency    httr    is not available for package    gh      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 gh    Warning in install packages     installation of package    gh    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependency    httr    is not available for package    covr      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 covr    Warning in install packages     installation of package    covr    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependencies    curl        gh    are not available for package    usethis      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 usethis    Warning in install packages     installation of package    usethis    had non-zero exit status ERROR  dependencies    usethis        covr        httr        roxygen2        rversions    are not available for package    devtools      removing     home hafiz R x86 64-pc-linux-gnu-library 3 6 devtools    Warning in install packages     installation of package    devtools    had non-zero exit status  The downloaded source packages are in         tmp Rtmpexapon downloaded packages     look at bold libraries which are missing libssl-dev libxml2-dev just you need to install these libraries in ubuntu terminal or  whatever operating system you are using you will find relative errors w r t operating system see errors in details   R-studio mentioned relative library package name against operating system for ubuntu i  did this sudo apt-get install libssl-dev   sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev    sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

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None of the above answers worked for me on Ubuntu 18 04 3 LTS using R version 3 6 1   My guess is this might have something to do with Anaconda3     What worked for me is   conda install -c r r-devtools    Then in R  install packages  rlang   install packages  devtools     sessionInfo    R version 3 6 1  2019-07-05  Platform  x86 64-conda cos6-linux-gnu  64-bit  Running under  Ubuntu 18 04 3 LTS  Matrix products  default BLAS LAPACK   home tsundoku anaconda3 lib R lib libRblas so  locale    1  LC CTYPE en CA UTF-8       LC NUMERIC C                 3  LC TIME en CA UTF-8        LC COLLATE en CA UTF-8       5  LC MONETARY en CA UTF-8    LC MESSAGES en CA UTF-8      7  LC PAPER en CA UTF-8       LC NAME C                    9  LC ADDRESS C               LC TELEPHONE C              11  LC MEASUREMENT en CA UTF-8 LC IDENTIFICATION C         attached base packages   1  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base       loaded via a namespace  and not attached    1  compiler 3 6 1 tools 3 6 1    tcltk 3 6 1

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I worked through a number of issues installing all of the following to get devtools to install on Ubuntu 18 04 1   sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev sudo apt-get install libssl-dev sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

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Nowadays  ubuntu 14 04  I need both      sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev    sudo apt-get -y install libssl-dev

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I m on windows and had the same issue   I used the below code    install packages  devtools   type    win binary     Then library devtools  worked for me

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I hit this issue with Ubuntu 18 04 and none of the previous answers solved it  Eventually I succeeded by installing devtools with the package manager itself   sudo apt install r-cran-devtools

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In case if you are using CentOS   Try   sudo yum -y install libcurl libcurl-devel

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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

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CentOS 7    I tried solutions in this post   sudo yum -y install libcurl libcurl-devel sudo yum -y install openssl-devel   but wasn t enough    Checking R error in Console gave me the anwser  In my case it was lacking libxml-2 0 below  and Console printed an explanation with package name to different Linux versions and other possible R configs   sudo yum -y install libxml2-devel

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