So I've tried many methods to get dyplr installed, I'll detail each of the methods and issues below. I'm running a new Linux machine with Pop!_OS.
*From the package manager* I tried installing r-base from the package manager but it delivers a version so out of date that when I try to install dyplr it throws an error. As far as I can tell from researching the error, the only resolution is to not install from the package manager. *From precompiled binaries* I don't fully get what I'm doing but as I understand it (I am not an especially tech-savvy person) the precompiled binaries are located here: Binaries <https://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/> However, given that my OS is none of those listed, I was wary of trying this. I tried anyway, guessing using the Ubuntu trusty one might do something, got a public key error. ``` W: GPG error: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 51716619E084DAB9 ``` I searched the error, don't really understand what I read about how to resolve it. But I'm guessing it has something to do with needing to already have a public key and I don't. So maybe this solution isn't meant for me. *Compiling from sources* Trying to follow any (and all) instructions I could find on building from source files, I downloaded from here: R souce <https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/> . I unzipped, navigated in, ran `sudo ./configure`. After chasing a lot of errors and trying to resolve them I eventually got it installed. Then downloaded RStudio and tried to install it, but it couldn't find R. After researching the error I found a suggestion to run `./configure` with the `--enable-R-shlib`. Did that, now I run `make` and get ``` [Some other stuff up above here] /usr/bin/ld: ../unix/X11.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `R_GUIType' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: nonrepresentable section on output collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [Makefile:177: libR.so] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/addem/Downloads/R-3.6.1/src/main' make[2]: *** [Makefile:135: R] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/addem/Downloads/R-3.6.1/src/main' make[1]: *** [Makefile:28: R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/addem/Downloads/R-3.6.1/src' make: *** [Makefile:61: R] Error 1 ``` After searching this error I can't find a resolution. ----- And just to be clear about what I'm trying to do here: All I want is R running with RStudio, and is able to install the dplyr package. If this can be done in any way, I don't care which way it's done. If any log files or whatever would be useful for any one of these three installation attempts, just ask. Thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel