Unable to install R packages in Ubuntu 18.04
Issue
Unable to install a few R packages (statistical programming language) since updating from 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04.
The problem is related to the use of the shared library libcurl. More precisely:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not
found (required by /home/avila/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/curl
/libs/curl.so)
sofar, I tried...
- ... to install a previous version of libcurl with
sudo apt-get install libcurl3, but other libraries were uninstalled on the procedure and R was not usable.
error output
When trying to install package called "forecast", for example:
install.packages("forecast")
installing to /home/avila/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/forecast/libs
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared
object '/home/avila/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/curl/libs/curl.so':
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not
found (required by /home/avila/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/curl
/libs/curl.so)
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘forecast’
* removing ‘/home/avila/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/forecast’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘forecast’ had non-zero exit status
other info:
- R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
- Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
It seems that to get predictive results you may want to start with renaming your existing R personal library with:
mv /home/$USER/R /home/$USER/R_old
Also install development package of curl:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
And then try to install your R-package from R-terminal:
$ R
install.packages("forecast")
My resolution came from the Rstudio boards: https://community.rstudio.com/t/error-version-curl-openssl-3-not-found/8090
Simply removing the R curl package and reinstalling (along with devtools etc.) did the trick.
I fix my problem after run: install.packages("RCurl")