Problems installing the devtools package

Question

I wish to use the devtools package. I\'ve run the following commands:

> install.packages(\"devtools\", dependencies = TRUE)
....
> library         


        

Answer 1

For my Debian Jessie box, I also included:

sudo apt-get build-dep libxml2-dev

Hint: The r-tool console output is pretty verbose so I would check for any other dependencies.

Then, I finally got it:

> find_rtools()
[1] TRUE

Answer 2

For ubuntu users, run this command in your terminal [Tested in UBUNTU 16.04]

sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev

post this install libraries the way you usually do in R using

install.packages("package name")

Answer 3

I worked through a number of issues installing all of the following to get devtools to install on Ubuntu 18.04.1.

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