Can't install the caret package in R (in my Linux machine)

Question

I am facing the following errors while trying to install the caret package in R.

     g++: error: /tmp/Rtmp2Tos7n/R.INSTALL2e6e30153a74/nloptr/nlopt-2.4.2/lib/libnlopt_cxx.a: 
No such file or directory make: *** [nloptr.so] Error 1
    
    ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘nloptr’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/nloptr’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘nloptr’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependency ‘nloptr’ is not available for package ‘lme4’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lme4’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘pbkrtest’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/pbkrtest’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘BradleyTerry2’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/BradleyTerry2’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘BradleyTerry2’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependency ‘pbkrtest’ is not available for package ‘car’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/car’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘car’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependencies ‘car’, ‘BradleyTerry2’ are not available for package ‘caret’
    * removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/caret’
    Warning in install.packages :
      installation of package ‘caret’ had non-zero exit status
    
    The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpG9dYqn/downloaded_packages’

I looked into this other question that had a similar problem

Dependency issue while installing caret package in R

The solution for this problem was to install each of the dependencies first, but they all had the same error message. For example:

>install.packages('nloptr')

g++: error: /tmp/RtmpgEn54A/R.INSTALL7015350f0d03/nloptr/nlopt-2.4.2/lib/libnlopt_cxx.a: No such file or directory
make: *** [nloptr.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘nloptr’
* removing ‘/rmt/csfiles/pgrads/mava290/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.1/nloptr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘nloptr’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpG9dYqn/downloaded_packages’

I also tried changing the repos ie. install.packages('caret', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/') but it dint work either.

My session info is given below:

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.2

Answer 1

I recently encountered the problem with nlopt as well. It was easily solved by installing nlopt-devel and its associated dependencies from YaST (or your preferred package manager).

Answer 2

I was hoping to add a comment first. On Jan 28, 2015, there was an addition to the nloptr package in github that possibly broke the compilation. I used a workaround by installing from an older version with the command

install.packages("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/nloptr/nloptr_1.0.0.tar.gz",
                 repos=NULL, type="source")