On 5 March 2021 at 04:19, Johannes Ranke wrote: | Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2021, 17:52:36 CET schrieb Valerio Villani: | > I installed R and RStudio on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I | > cannot install any package with the install.packages() function. I tried | > many things, but nothing worked so far. | > I always get the following error message: | > | > Warning in install.packages : | > installation of package ‘#PACKAGE_NAME#’ had non-zero exit status | > | > *You can find more information about the issue in the link I posted in this | > tweet <https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani/status/1367410759857287171?s=20>.* | | I looked up the twitter link where you posted another link where you give more | information. Citing from the error message: | | Installing package into ‘/home/valerio/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’ | (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) | trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz' | Warning in install.packages : | URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz': status was | 'Couldn't resolve host name' | ... | | This means that your Linux system did not manage to look up the IP address of | the server (cloud.r-project.org) from where it wanted to download the package. | As a consequence, the package could not be downloaded. | | A likely cause for this is that the internet connection of your Linux system | is not set up correctly.
Could not agree more. In fact, I made the same comment this morning at this likely cross-posted (booh, bad style) post at StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66479605/i-cant-install-any-package-on-linux-ubuntu-with-the-install-packages-functi#comment117527678_66479605 Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian