I did not quite know where this belongs exactly, so I decided to post this here on stack overflow.
I recently had package issues with R and R-Studio on Linux Mint 20.1, where I always recieved dependency errors when installing packages like plotly and tidyverse. Therefore, in order to test if my system was responsible I live booted a fresh Linux Mint USB and installed R and R-Studio the following way:
sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install r-base
Then download R-Studio from here and installed it like:
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core # Install R-Studio with gdebi sudo gdebi rstudio-1.2.5042-amd64.deb
Then, I opened RStudio by typing rstudio
in the terminal. Inside RStudio I tried to install the package tidyverse by install.packages("tidyverse")
which resulted in some dependency errors like:
ERROR: dependencies ‘xml2’, ‘httr’ are not available for package ‘rvest’ * removing ‘/home/mint/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/rvest’ * installing *source* package ‘tibble’ ...
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Answer
The solution was to use the command, suggested in the r-lib issue by @fredaas:
sudo apt install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev
By using this command I was able to resolve the issue and install every package I required flawlessly.
I am sorry if this does not belong here but I hope I can help someone saving hours of troubleshooting. This issues is maybe caused by Linux Mint or the most recent R Version 4.0.3 so I was not sure where to share my results.