Cannot install R packages in Jupyter Notebook

Question

I am trying to run R code in Jupyter and the R Kernel was added. Most of the time, packages can be installed successfully. However, some of the packages, such as RCurl and ggmap, would got error while installing.

Example:

install.packages("RCurl")

Warning message in install.packages("RCurl"): “installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status”Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'

Making 'packages.html' ... done

What should I do?

Answer 1

Try to specify CRAN as repository in your install.packages statement when installing RCurl and ggmap. For example:

install.packages("RCurl", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')

This Stack Overflow post on installing R packages through Anaconda/Jupyter beyond those included in R essential provides more detail.

(Side note: I had encountered the same issue when trying to install R packages on computer clusters. This solution worked for me.)