Installing packages on Microsoft R Open fails

Question

I\'ve never had any issues installing packages on R, but I always have issues installing packages on Microsoft R Open. For example, I attempted to install tidyverse. I recei

Answer 1

These errors told you that you didn't have necessary tools (make, gcc) for building R packages in Linux

libs sh: 1: make: not found 
...
no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

You will need to install r-base-dev to get those

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

See more:

• https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/r-base-dev
• R package installation in Linux