Installation of package ‘forecast’ had non-zero exit status

Question

With R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) on centOS I am trying to install.packages(\'forecast\')

I get this:

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Answer 1

Install devtools. Most of the time the problem in installing R packages is that these tools are not there. Once this is installed, the zero exit error goes away.

install.packages('devtools')

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-r-packages-using-devtools-on-ubuntu-16-04

Answer 2

On UBUNTU 18.04 I got the following

Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing: * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc) * rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) * csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris)

I installed the package libcurl14-openssl-dev using synaptic, that solved the problem.