package ‘build-essential’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
Have you read these instructions? http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html They say to run sudo apt-get install r-base-dev which should install 'build-essential' (which is an Ubuntu package, not an R package). -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Charles Evans <cevans at chyden.net> wrote:
Hello, I have searched on the R-Project site, R-Help archives, and the Internet at large, and I cannot find a solution to my problem. I am running R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" on Ubuntu 13.04. When I try to install several packages, including quantmod, with dependencies=T set, and I keep getting long lists of packages that result in "installation of package 'X' had non-zero exit status". When I try to install X, I get another list of packages that failed to install. After a few iterations of this, the package that I am trying to install is listed among the packages that have failed to install. I found a reference online to build-essential, but when I tried to install that, I got "package ?build-essential? is not available (for R version 3.0.2)". Any hints or follow-up questions would be greatly appreciated. C.Evans
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