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

Hi all,
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>.*

Thanks for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,
Valerio Villani



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*Mr Valerio Villani*

PhD Student at the Lab of Action and Body <http://manostsakiris.com/>


Department of Psychology

*Royal Holloway, University of London*

<Valerio.Villani.2019 at live.rhul.ac.uk>
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On 4 March 2021 at 16:52, Valerio Villani wrote:
| I am new to this mailing list and Linux too.

Welcome!

You may find this post helpful:

  https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example

as your email is currently% unactionable. Was it a source package? Was it a
binary package? What actual command did you run? What error did you get?  If
it is was a complex package (with many depends), did you try a simpler one?

Dirk

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https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

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
> 
> 
> 
> ___________________________________
> 
> *Mr Valerio Villani*
> 
> PhD Student at the Lab of Action and Body <http://manostsakiris.com/>
> 
> 
> Department of Psychology
> 
> *Royal Holloway, University of London*
> 
> <Valerio.Villani.2019 at live.rhul.ac.uk>
> <https://twitter.com/ValerioVillani>
> <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yG5NoagAAAAJ&hl=en>
>
<https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/valerio-villani(d22b83b1
> -9d90-4247-a5cb-d2150cf351ca).html>
> 
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