unable to install rvest package

r rvest
user1471980 picture user1471980 · Jun 23, 2015 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I need to install rvest package for R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)

I get these errors:

    checking whether the C++ compiler supports the long long type... no
*** stringi cannot be built. Upgrade your C++ compiler's settings
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘stringi’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/stringi’
ERROR: dependency ‘stringi’ is not available for package ‘stringr’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/stringr’
ERROR: dependency ‘stringr’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/httr’
ERROR: dependency ‘stringr’ is not available for package ‘selectr’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/selectr’
ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘selectr’ are not available for package ‘rvest’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/rvest’

Any ideas on how I could install R package rvest?

Answer

NoahC picture NoahC · Dec 15, 2015

My system is Ubuntu 14.04 with R:3.2.3, and I had the same problem.

Then I checked err meg and tried to install library of libcurl4-openssl-dev and libxml2-dev:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

After installed, install.packages("rvest") was successful.

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