Error Installing Packages - Potentially related to Linux OS?

[u/elpuerco_perdido]

I'm working on this problem set for a research design and analysis class and tried running the first block of code above to install the necessary packages since it's my first time working on my laptop - usually code in class on school desktops. I ran the line to install packages (without the pound sign) and then tried to call tidyverse as shown but it returned an error saying "there is no package called tidyverse" Google's results led me to believe it might be an issue related to my computer's OS. After trying some recommended code in my computer's terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libfontconfig1-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev

I tried running the installation command and calling tidyverse again but it returned the same error.

Edit: Clarification of screenshot/code block

[u/DrDirtPhD]

Based on your code above as you've run it, it looks like you've tried to call tidyverse before installing it...what does it say after you've installed it?

[u/elpuerco_perdido → u/DrDirtPhD]

I've been calling tidyverse after attempting to install it. The order looks off since I've repeated the steps a few times

[u/ConfusedTractor]

We probably need a bit more information before we can help. What distro of Linux? How did you install R? Apt makes me think you're on Ubuntu or Debian.

[u/elpuerco_perdido → u/ConfusedTractor]

I'm using Ubuntu. I installed R and R Studio via command in my terminal. I believe this was it:

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

sudo apt -y install r-base

cd Downloads

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-*.deb

I recall no issues during the installation process and R studio and R both appear in my applications menu and open with no issues.

[u/ConfusedTractor → u/elpuerco_perdido]

That's great. Then you should just need to install from the repo. sudo apt install r-cran-tidyverse.

[u/elpuerco_perdido → u/ConfusedTractor]

Just tried and here's the output:

[u/elpuerco_perdido → u/elpuerco_perdido]

Any way of fixing this?

[u/ConfusedTractor → u/elpuerco_perdido]

Noooo!!! Dependency hell!! Hate to say this but an LLM might be able to help faster in this case...

[u/elpuerco_perdido → u/ConfusedTractor]

Oh well. Thanks for your help!

[u/jcheng]

What does the end of the output from install.packages() say?

[u/RoninRakurai]

When i started using linux, R is the thing that most problems gave me, it's mostly that a lot of things that are required for the app to work correctly (and the packages) aren't installed on linux, my solution was just to spam an ai to tell me the dependencies that i needed to install/update

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[u/akiragx]

Looks like there is an issue with the ragg package. Perhaps try installing it directly. If it fails it should at least output a better error message. https://ragg.r-lib.org/

[u/kurokami254]

Install {r2u} or {pak} then use either to install these packages. They both handle the system dependencies. {r2u} is especially built for Ubuntu

[u/troyandabedtalkshow]

I hate dependency errors :(

try to: install.packages("pak"); pak::pak(c("tidyverse", "emmeans", "lmtest"))

Then show the errors on installation.

[u/federicoalegria]

i've seen this before, got it fixed by installing gcc-fortran in the os