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Installing swirl on linux mint

I am trying to install swirl in RStudio and it is not working it reads:

installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘httr’ is not available for package ‘swirl’
* removing ‘/home/justin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/swirl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘swirl’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmp9gKFfm/downloaded_packages’

When I try to load it, it says: Error in library(swirl) : there is no package called ‘swirl’

I am running Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit 3.0.7 R version 3.2.3

Solution

  • I got it work!!

    By installing libssl-dev package:

    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev