[R-sig-Debian] pdftools on Ubuntu

francois Guilhaumon IRD
2016-12-02T11:25:20Z

Hello,


libpoppler-cpp-dev is not an R package but a system library to be installed
with (for example) :

sudo apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev


hope this help.



Fran?ois Guilhaumon

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2016-12-02 12:21 GMT+01:00 Eduardo Morelli <emorelli1966 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install pdftools package on R 3.3.1 (Ubuntu 16.04), but the
> following issue occurs:
>
> ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
> Configuration failed because poppler-cpp was not found. Try installing:
>  * deb: libpoppler-cpp-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
>  * rpm: poppler-cpp-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
>  * csw: poppler_dev (Solaris)
>  * brew: poppler (Mac OSX)
> If poppler-cpp is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in
your
> PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a poppler-cpp.pc file. If pkg-config
> is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?pdftools?
> * removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/pdftools?
>
> And when I try to install libpoppler-cpp-dev, I am getting another error:
>
> install.packages('libpoppler-cpp-dev')
> > package ?libpoppler-cpp-dev? is not available (for R version 3.3.1)
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Is there any place where I can find libpoppler-cpp-dev? (I tried
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ without success)
>
> 2) Is there any newer version for R in Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eduardo Morelli
>
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