I set up an Ubuntu VM and can't install packages.
Installing package into ‘/home/username/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
It looks like all default packages are saved in /usr/lib/R/library
But and RStudio is trying to write new packages into /home/username/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0
.libPaths()
[1] "/home/username/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
[3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/library"
I also tried to upload the packages directly to /usr/lib/R/library through FileZilla but I'm getting the following error messages
mkdir /usr/lib/R/library/jsonlite: permission denied
How can I install the packages I need?
After investing the issue further today, I was able to solve it. The problem was due to an outdated version of R, and missing libraries (curl, xml).
the $ sudo apt-get install r-base command installs whatever version is available on the server.
Therefore it's important to get the latest version
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
I reinstalled R following this tutorial in case anyone runs into the same issue. Setting Up R Studio Server On Microsoft Azure
Hope this is helpful