Problem installing Rcmdr on version 4.1.2...

On 2022-03-04 8:34 a.m., Ivan Krylov wrote:

Typically, when an R package wraps a third-party library, you need a
development version of it installed in order to install that package
from source.

If you're running R from the Linux Mint repos, try to install
r-cran-nloptr from Linux Mint repositories. If you don't, or have some
trouble installing the package, install the libnlopt-dev Linux Mint
package before trying to install the nloptr R package.

libnlopt-dev installed okay, but when I tried pulling in the r-cran
package I got this:

brian at brian-Aspire-ES1-511:~$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-nloptr

That's not the typical way to install an R package from source.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  r-cran-nloptr : Depends: r-api-3.4

Is there anything in your setup that would explain why nloptr is looking 
for an ancient version of R? I'm wondering if that binary package was 
created years ago and hasn't been replaced since nloptr was reconfigured 
to do the work of installing nlopt?

I'm also failing to install nloptr 2.0.0 using R 4.1.2 in an Ubuntu 
18.04 machine. The first reported error was not having Cmake, but 
installing Cmake then leads to failure both from the R console and from 
a terminal session with:

R CMD INSTALL ~/Downloads/nloptr_2.0.0.tar.gz

It fails at:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking if pkg-config knows NLopt... no
using NLopt via local cmake build on x86_64
set CMAKE_BIN=/usr/bin/cmake
set CC=gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu11
set CFLAGS= -fpic -g -O2 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-J7pprH/r-base-4.1.2=. 
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time 
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
set CXX=g++
set CXXFLAGS=-std=gnu++11 -fpic -g -O2 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-J7pprH/r-base-4.1.2=. 
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time 
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -Wno-ignored-attributes
set LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
CMake Error: The source directory 
"/tmp/RtmpzB1FjU/R.INSTALL289c4748c404/nloptr/src/nlopt-build" does not 
exist.

 ?My understanding is that the right place to post such difficulties is 
on R-SIG-debian, or at the Issues page: 
https://github.com/astamm/nloptr/issues/85

David

> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> I'll try the R site, but I'm open to other ideas.:-(
>