I am trying to install the "writexl" package in my system to use in my college. The RStudio give an error, and don't install. Using Linux Mint 21, but I tried on Fedora 36 too. The output from RStudio:
> install.packages("writexl")
Installing package into ‘/home/scott/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
tentando a URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/writexl_1.4.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 258461 bytes (252 KB)
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downloaded 252 KB
* installing *source* package ‘writexl’ ...
** package ‘writexl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c write_xlsx.c -o write_xlsx.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/app.c -o libxlsxwriter/app.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/format.c -o libxlsxwriter/format.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/theme.c -o libxlsxwriter/theme.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/chart.c -o libxlsxwriter/chart.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/hash_table.c -o libxlsxwriter/hash_table.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/utility.c -o libxlsxwriter/utility.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/content_types.c -o libxlsxwriter/content_types.o
gcc -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -DUSE_R_LANG -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-zYgbYq/r-base-4.2.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c libxlsxwriter/packager.c -o libxlsxwriter/packager.o
libxlsxwriter/packager.c:10:10: fatal error: zlib.h: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente
10 | #include <zlib.h>
| ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: libxlsxwriter/packager.o] Erro 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘writexl’
* removing ‘/home/scott/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/writexl’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘writexl’ had non-zero exit status
Your version of R is probably not configured with the correct C flags. Can you show me the full output of the compiler before the error happens?
I have just installed the package in tumbleweed in docker and it works fine. I think it is a bug in your linux installation.
Run docker
docker run -i -t opensuse/tumbleweed bash
Run in container:
zypper update zypper install R-devel gcc zlib-devel
#install writexl R -e 'install.packages("writexl", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'