How to install Tidyverse on Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.04

Question

I\'m running Ubuntu 16.04 [now 17.04: see note in bold below] and R 3.4.1. I installed the latter this morning, so I presume it\'s the latest version. I want to install Tidy

Answer 1

I run into the same problem, using elementary loki, based on ubuntu 16.04. Reading the output, I realized there was a very informative error message, that looked like this

    ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because openssl was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: openssl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * csw: libssl_dev (Solaris)
 * brew: openssl@1.1 (Mac OSX)
If openssl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a openssl.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'

So I followed each prompt, installing the required deb, which came up to

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev 

and it worked, after I had already tried installing the cran packages listed above, without adding the new repositories.