How to install libxml2 package in R if it's not available for my version?

Question

I wanted to install \"DESeq2\" package in R, but it was missing the xml2-config file. I found somewhere that it can be obtained by installing the libxml2 package, but when I tri

Answer 1

You can install the dev version: devtools::install_github("r-lib/xml2")

Answer 2

After running what @amarchin wrote it didn't work instantly but R suggested to install libxml2-dev. So I run: sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev in Terminal. And then in R console I typed the code from @amarchin: devtools::install_github("r-lib/xml2") And it worked :)