Re: [R] package ‘build-essential’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

Have you read these instructions? http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html They say to run sudo apt-get install r-base-dev which should install 'build-essential' (which is an Ubuntu package, not an R package). -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstradi

[R] package ‘build-essential’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

Hello, I have searched on the R-Project site, R-Help archives, and the Internet at large, and I cannot find a solution to my problem. I am running R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" on Ubuntu 13.04. When I try to install several packages, including quantmod, with dependencies=T se