I am trying to install swirl in RStudio and it is not working it reads: The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmp9gKFfm/downloaded_packages’ When I try to load it, it says: Error in library(swirl) : there is no package called ‘swirl’ I am running Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit 3.0.7 R version 3.2.3 Answer I got it work!! By installing libssl-dev