Installing systemfonts package from CRAN and GitHub fails

Question

I recently upgraded my intel MacBook from Catalina to Monterey (Darwin release 21.1.0) I also upgraded R from 4.0.1 to 4.1.1 via home-brew. I have reinstalled the majority of packages necessary for my work, however, ran into issues with mapview. It failed to install due to an issue with a dependency - systemfonts. I attempted to install systemfonts directly from CRAN and after that failed from GitHub which also failed with these messages:

/bin/sh: I/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.1.1_1/lib/R/include: No such file or directory
make: [mac/FontManagerMac.o] Error 127 (ignored)

and

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'mac/FontManagerMac.o'
make: *** [systemfonts.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘systemfonts’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/4.1/site-library/systemfonts’
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘/var/folders/85/56q39hqj2_gf31m9mbln7hhw0000gn/T//RtmpJGiNgA/file324134b404c/systemfonts_1.0.3.9000.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this issue. I may open an issue on GitHub r-lib/systemfonts as this may be related to some sort of incompatibility between the package and the updated OS however, thought I should start here.

Thanks

Answer 1

1. In the bash shell:

   sudo apt install libfontconfig1-dev

2. in RStidio

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