My attempts to install and then load ggplot2 have repeatedly failed. Here is the pertinent set of commands and responses:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- install.packages("ggplot2") Installing package into ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) also installing the dependencies ‘Rcpp’, ‘plyr’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’ trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/Rcpp_0.11.3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2169583 bytes (2.1 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 2.1 Mb trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/plyr_1.8.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 393233 bytes (384 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 384 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/reshape2_1.4.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 34693 bytes (33 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 33 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/scales_0.2.4.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 40093 bytes (39 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 39 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/ggplot2_1.0.0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2351447 bytes (2.2 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 2.2 Mb * installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ... ** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c Date.cpp -o Date.o /bin/bash: g++: command not found make: *** [Date.o] Error 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’ * removing ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/Rcpp’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘Rcpp’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘Rcpp’ is not available for package ‘plyr’ * removing ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/plyr’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘plyr’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘plyr’, ‘Rcpp’ are not available for package ‘reshape2’ * removing ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/reshape2’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘plyr’ is not available for package ‘scales’ * removing ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/scales’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘plyr’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’ are not available for package ‘ggplot2’ * removing ‘/home/ron/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/ggplot2’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmp3phwN2/downloaded_packages’ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am relatively new to using R, but have had no prior problems in installing packages. Any and all suggestions and comments will be much appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Unable-to-install-ggplot2-using-R-3-1-2-and-RStudio-0-98-1091-in-Linux-Mint-17-1-tp4701054.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.