Question

I’m running RStudio Server and am unable to install the zoo package. The error message I get is as follows:

Installing package(s) into ‘/home/tsajid/R/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL ‘http://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-9.tar.gz‘
Content type ‘application/x-gzip’ length 807084 bytes (788 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 788 Kb

** installing source package ‘zoo’ …
** package ‘zoo’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘zoo’
** removing ‘/home/tsajid/R/library/zoo’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘zoo’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpsKlJWz/downloaded_packages’

I tried installing the package archive file but I get an identical error message.

Session info:

R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] svMisc_0.9-65

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.1

Answer 1

It states it pretty clearly:

sh: make: command not found

So please do install the Red Hat equivalent of the Debian / Ubuntu command

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

which via its dependence on build-essential also installs make, gcc etc pp