R SIG Debian - Mar 2021 - I cannot install any R package on Ubuntu: help, please!

Am Donnerstag, 4. M?rz 2021, 17:52:36 CET schrieb Valerio
Villani:
> Hi all,
Hello!
> I am new to this mailing list and Linux too.
> 
> I installed R and RStudio on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I
> cannot install any package with the install.packages() function. I tried
> many things, but nothing worked so far.
> I always get the following error message:
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
>   installation of package ?#PACKAGE_NAME#? had non-zero exit status
> 
> *You can find more information about the issue in the link I posted in this
> tweet
<https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani/status/1367410759857287171?s=20>.*
I looked up the twitter link where you posted another link where you give more 
information. Citing from the error message:

Installing package into ?/home/valerio/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz'
Warning in install.packages :
  URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz':
status was
'Couldn't resolve host name'
...

This means that your Linux system did not manage to look up the IP address of 
the server (cloud.r-project.org) from where it wanted to download the package. 
As a consequence, the package could not be downloaded.

A likely cause for this is that the internet connection of your Linux system 
is not set up correctly.

Johannes

> 
> Thanks for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.
> 
> All the best,
> Valerio Villani
> 
> 
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On 5 March 2021 at 04:19, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Am Donnerstag, 4. M?rz 2021, 17:52:36 CET schrieb Valerio Villani:
| > I installed R and RStudio on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I
| > cannot install any package with the install.packages() function. I tried
| > many things, but nothing worked so far.
| > I always get the following error message:
| > 
| > Warning in install.packages :
| >   installation of package ?#PACKAGE_NAME#? had non-zero exit status
| > 
| > *You can find more information about the issue in the link I posted in
this
| > tweet
<https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani/status/1367410759857287171?s=20>.*
| 
| I looked up the twitter link where you posted another link where you give more
| information. Citing from the error message:
| 
| Installing package into ?/home/valerio/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0?
| (as ?lib? is unspecified)
| trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz'
| Warning in install.packages :
|   URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz':
status was
| 'Couldn't resolve host name'
| ...
| 
| This means that your Linux system did not manage to look up the IP address of 
| the server (cloud.r-project.org) from where it wanted to download the package.
| As a consequence, the package could not be downloaded.
| 
| A likely cause for this is that the internet connection of your Linux system 
| is not set up correctly.

Could not agree more. In fact, I made the same comment this morning at this
likely cross-posted (booh, bad style) post at StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66479605/i-cant-install-any-package-on-linux-ubuntu-with-the-install-packages-functi#comment117527678_66479605

Dirk

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