package ‘tidyverse’ is not available

Question

I am trying to install "tidyverse" and I get the below error.

install.packages("tidyverse")

package ‘tidyverse’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘tidyverse’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.1.3)

The below is details about my Session.

sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.12.1 (unknown)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.3

Would anyone have any idea what's missing here?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Did you try:

install.packages('tidyverse', dependencies=TRUE, type="source")

You may also want to try to update the version of R you are using.

Answer 2

if you are using ubuntu try this and then install tidyverse again

Required for many packages

sudo apt-get install -y libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev