Cannot install R packages in Jupyter Notebook

Question

I am trying to run R code in Jupyter and the R Kernel was added. Most of the time, packages can be installed successfully. However, some of the packages, such as RCurl

Answer 1

Try to specify CRAN as repository in your install.packages statement when installing RCurl and ggmap. For example:

install.packages("RCurl", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')

This Stack Overflow post on installing R packages through Anaconda/Jupyter beyond those included in R essential provides more detail.

(Side note: I had encountered the same issue when trying to install R packages on computer clusters. This solution worked for me.)

Answer 2

use conda comment:

conda install r-RCurl