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In R we have a few tools available to us to manage packages in addition to the built in ones. Packrat has been a default solution for a long time, but now I think renv is going to soon replace it.
Any idea why the apt install build-essential solved it? I guess it might be as you needed to do local builds from the source code as opposed to pulling a new tarball in?
I'm going to guess this installs the GCC toolchain which R would need to compile those packages for my distro since CRAN does not provide binary packages for linux...
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Glad you solved it :)
Incidentally, non-zero exit status actually tends to mean something didn't work.
In R we have a few tools available to us to manage packages in addition to the built in ones. Packrat has been a default solution for a long time, but now I think renv is going to soon replace it.
Any idea why the
apt install build-essentialsolved it? I guess it might be as you needed to do local builds from the source code as opposed to pulling a new tarball in?I'm going to guess this installs the GCC toolchain which R would need to compile those packages for my distro since CRAN does not provide binary packages for linux...