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Issues while installing swirl on R 3.4.4, Linux Mint Sonya

I tried installing swirl on my system from the R studio, and got the following error:

Swirl installation error screenshot enter image description here

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘openssl’
* removing ‘/home/dipti/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/openssl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘openssl’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘openssl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/home/dipti/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/httr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘httr’ is not available for package ‘swirl’
* removing ‘/home/dipti/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/swirl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘swirl’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/Rtmpbp61si/downloaded_packages’

library(swirl) Error in library(swirl) : there is no package called ‘swirl’

And then I searched the internet for possible solutions, so I tried following the steps from this link:

https://github.com/swirldev/swirl/wiki/Installing-swirl-on-Linux

There were some issues while installing libcurl, but seems fine when I did this the last time.

Libcurl installation screenshot enter image description here

I retried installing swirl from the R studio, but still, the error is same.

I also tried installing dependencies like stringi, openssl and httr. And only stringi was successfully installed, both the remaining others had the same error.

Solution

  • It worked after running:

    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

    on the Mint terminal. Then in R,

    install.packages("swirl", dependencies = TRUE)