In R, using Ubuntu, try to install a lib depending on GMP C lib, it won't find GMP, but I have GMP installed

Question

I want to install the Rmpfr library of R, so I type within R:

install.packages(\"Rmpfr\")

This package requires the GMP C library to be ins

Answer 1

It worked after I installed build-essential and libboost. Yes, I had something lacking on my system. :-)

Answer 2

In my case it was solved by installation of libgmp3-dev

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev