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I cannot install any R package on Ubuntu: help, please!

6 messages · Valerio Villani, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Johannes Ranke

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Valerio Villani
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Hi all,
I am new to this mailing list and Linux too.

I installed R and RStudio on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I
cannot install any package with the install.packages() function. I tried
many things, but nothing worked so far.
I always get the following error message:

Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ?#PACKAGE_NAME#? had non-zero exit status

*You can find more information about the issue in the link I posted in this
tweet <https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani/status/1367410759857287171?s=20>.*

Thanks for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,
Valerio Villani



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Department of Psychology

*Royal Holloway, University of London*

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 4 March 2021 at 16:52, Valerio Villani wrote:
| I am new to this mailing list and Linux too.

Welcome!

You may find this post helpful:

  https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example

as your email is currently% unactionable. Was it a source package? Was it a
binary package? What actual command did you run? What error did you get?  If
it is was a complex package (with many depends), did you try a simpler one?

Dirk
Johannes Ranke
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Am Donnerstag, 4. M?rz 2021, 17:52:36 CET schrieb Valerio Villani:
Hello!
I looked up the twitter link where you posted another link where you give more 
information. Citing from the error message:

Installing package into ?/home/valerio/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz'
Warning in install.packages :
  URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz': status was 
'Couldn't resolve host name'
...

This means that your Linux system did not manage to look up the IP address of 
the server (cloud.r-project.org) from where it wanted to download the package. 
As a consequence, the package could not be downloaded.

A likely cause for this is that the internet connection of your Linux system 
is not set up correctly.

Johannes

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 5 March 2021 at 04:19, Johannes Ranke wrote:

        
| Am Donnerstag, 4. M?rz 2021, 17:52:36 CET schrieb Valerio Villani:
| > I installed R and RStudio on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I
| > cannot install any package with the install.packages() function. I tried
| > many things, but nothing worked so far.
| > I always get the following error message:
| > 
| > Warning in install.packages :
| >   installation of package ?#PACKAGE_NAME#? had non-zero exit status
| > 
| > *You can find more information about the issue in the link I posted in this
| > tweet <https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani/status/1367410759857287171?s=20>.*
| 
| I looked up the twitter link where you posted another link where you give more 
| information. Citing from the error message:
| 
| Installing package into ?/home/valerio/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0?
| (as ?lib? is unspecified)
| trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz'
| Warning in install.packages :
|   URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz': status was 
| 'Couldn't resolve host name'
| ...
| 
| This means that your Linux system did not manage to look up the IP address of 
| the server (cloud.r-project.org) from where it wanted to download the package. 
| As a consequence, the package could not be downloaded.
| 
| A likely cause for this is that the internet connection of your Linux system 
| is not set up correctly.

Could not agree more. In fact, I made the same comment this morning at this
likely cross-posted (booh, bad style) post at StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66479605/i-cant-install-any-package-on-linux-ubuntu-with-the-install-packages-functi#comment117527678_66479605

Dirk

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Am Freitag, 5. M?rz 2021, 04:37:01 CET schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Ooh, so we have threads on the Rstudio Forum, on StackOverflow, and here, and 
on twitter... I agree this is bad style, as we have no central point to 
collect information.

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 5 March 2021 at 05:03, Johannes Ranke wrote:

        
| Ooh, so we have threads on the Rstudio Forum, on StackOverflow, and here, and 
| on twitter... I agree this is bad style, as we have no central point to 
| collect information.
| 
| From the RStudio Forum we can see that Valerio can download the package in a 
| browser. So the internet connection seems to be OK.

Yet the question was to 'download.file(some_url)' which is still open.

| Valerio, please inform us where we are supposed to answer, I feel little 
| inclination to keep collecting info from several sites.

Indeed.

Dirk