How to install Tidyverse on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)? - r

Question

I'm trying to install Tidyverse on a Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system, preferably in a maintainable way, such that I can execute the code examples in a related book.
I've explored posted questions related to this one, and have found the top or accepted answers did not allow me to install Tidyverse.
Install system packages
Use already compiled binaries
Install cran packages
Install readr without lock
Install system packages (in comments)
Using devtools
So now I am trying to build up an installation procedure from a state where previously-mentioned packages begin uninstalled, which currently does not work but gives a template from which answers to this question can be modifications from.
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get install r-base-core r-base-dev
$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-curl r-cran-openssl r-cran-xml2
$ R
> install.packages("tidyverse")
Following the above procedure ends with the following as output in the R interactive terminal:
Installing package into ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/tidyverse_1.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 712837 bytes (696 KB)
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downloaded 696 KB
* installing *source* package ‘tidyverse’ ...
** package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: S3 methods ‘$.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘$.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘$.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘$<-.quosures’, ‘$<-.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘$<-.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[.quosure’, ‘[.quosures’, ‘[.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[.rlang_envs’, ‘[.stack’, ‘[<-.quosures’, ‘[[.quosure’, ‘[[.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘[[.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[[.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘[[<-.quosures’, ‘[[<-.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘[[<-.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘Math.quosure’, ‘Ops.quosure’, ‘Summary.quosure’, ‘as.character.quosure’, ‘as.list.quosures’, ‘c.quosures’, ‘c.rlang_envs’, ‘cnd_footer.default’, ‘cnd_header.default’, ‘conditionMessage.rlang_error’, ‘format.rlang_error’, ‘format.rlang_trace’, ‘length.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘length.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘length.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘mean.quosure’, ‘median.quosure’, ‘names.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘names.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘name [... truncated]
Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) :
undefined exports: !!!, !!, %#%, %#%<-, %|%, %||%, :=, f_env<-, f_lhs<-, f_rhs<-, fn_body<-, fn_env<-, fn_fmls<-, fn_fmls_names<-, .data, UQ, UQS, abort, are_na, arg_match, as_box, as_box_if, as_bytes, as_character, as_closure, as_complex, as_data_mask, as_data_pronoun, as_double, as_env, as_environment, as_function, as_integer, as_label, as_list, as_logical, as_name, as_overscope, as_pairlist, as_quosure, as_quosures, as_string, as_utf8_character, base_env, bytes, bytes_along, bytes_len, call2, call_args, call_args_names, call_depth, call_fn, call_frame, call_inspect, call_modify, call_name, call_ns, call_stack, call_standardise, caller_env, caller_fn, caller_frame, calling, catch_cnd, child_env, chr, chr_along, chr_len, chr_unserialise_unicode, cnd, cnd_body, cnd_entrace, cnd_footer, cnd_header, cnd_message, cnd_muffle, cnd_signal, cnd_type, coerce_class, coerce_type, cpl, cpl_along, cpl_len, ctxt_depth, ctxt_frame, ctxt_stack, current_env, current_fn, current_frame, dbl, dbl_along, 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ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘tidyverse’
* removing ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/tidyverse’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpXT3xFS/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("tidyverse") :
installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status
It is clear from the output that the binary matches the checksum, and that the issue is related to exporting what appear to be method names from a namespace. While I am familiar with the general problem of namespace conflicts, I am unsure what is exactly happening here.
I've also tried changing step 5 to install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE), which instead gives the following output:
Installing package into ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘rex’, ‘covr’, ‘feather’
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rex_1.1.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 89430 bytes (87 KB)
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downloaded 87 KB
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/covr_3.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 144119 bytes (140 KB)
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downloaded 140 KB
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/feather_0.3.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 73812 bytes (72 KB)
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downloaded 72 KB
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/tidyverse_1.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 712837 bytes (696 KB)
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downloaded 696 KB
* installing *source* package ‘rex’ ...
** package ‘rex’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: S3 methods ‘[.fseq’, ‘[[.fseq’, ‘print.fseq’ were declared in NAMESPACE but not found
Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) :
undefined exports: %$%, %<>%, %>%, %T>%, n'est pas, add, and, debug_fseq, debug_pipe, divide_by, divide_by_int, equals, extract, extract2, freduce, functions, inset, inset2, is_greater_than, is_in, is_less_than, is_weakly_greater_than, is_weakly_less_than, mod, multiply_by, multiply_by_matrix, not, or, raise_to_power, set_colnames, set_names, set_rownames, subtract, undebug_fseq, use_series
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘rex’
* removing ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rex’
* installing *source* package ‘feather’ ...
** package ‘feather’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Platform is little endian. Good.
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather-read.cpp -o feather-read.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather-types.cpp -o feather-types.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather-write.cpp -o feather-write.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/buffer.cc -o feather/buffer.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/feather-c.cc -o feather/feather-c.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/io.cc -o feather/io.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/metadata.cc -o feather/metadata.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/reader.cc -o feather/reader.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/status.cc -o feather/status.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/types.cc -o feather/types.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I"/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c feather/writer.cc -o feather/writer.o
ar rcs libfeather.a feather/buffer.o feather/feather-c.o feather/io.o feather/metadata.o feather/reader.o feather/status.o feather/types.o feather/writer.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o feather.so RcppExports.o feather-read.o feather-types.o feather-write.o -L. -lfeather -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/feather/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: S3 methods ‘.DollarNames.C++Object’, ‘.DollarNames.Module’, ‘print.bytes’, ‘format.Rcpp_stack_trace’, ‘str.Rcpp_stack_trace’, ‘print.Rcpp_stack_trace’ were declared in NAMESPACE but not found
Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) :
undefined exports: Module, Rcpp.package.skeleton, populate, loadRcppModules, setRcppClass, loadRcppClass, loadModule, cppFunction, exposeClass, evalCpp, sourceCpp, compileAttributes, registerPlugin, RcppLdFlags, LdFlags, demangle, sizeof, cpp_object_initializer, cpp_object_dummy, Rcpp.plugin.maker, getRcppVersion
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘feather’
* removing ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/feather’
* installing *source* package ‘tidyverse’ ...
** package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: S3 methods ‘$.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘$.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘$.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘$<-.quosures’, ‘$<-.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘$<-.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[.quosure’, ‘[.quosures’, ‘[.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[.rlang_envs’, ‘[.stack’, ‘[<-.quosures’, ‘[[.quosure’, ‘[[.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘[[.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘[[.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘[[<-.quosures’, ‘[[<-.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘[[<-.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘Math.quosure’, ‘Ops.quosure’, ‘Summary.quosure’, ‘as.character.quosure’, ‘as.list.quosures’, ‘c.quosures’, ‘c.rlang_envs’, ‘cnd_footer.default’, ‘cnd_header.default’, ‘conditionMessage.rlang_error’, ‘format.rlang_error’, ‘format.rlang_trace’, ‘length.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘length.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘length.rlang_fake_data_pronoun’, ‘mean.quosure’, ‘median.quosure’, ‘names.rlang_ctxt_pronoun’, ‘names.rlang_data_pronoun’, ‘name [... truncated]
Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) :
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ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘tidyverse’
* removing ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/tidyverse’
ERROR: dependency ‘rex’ is not available for package ‘covr’
* removing ‘/home/galen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/covr’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpGxNQPL/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE) :
installation of package ‘rex’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE) :
installation of package ‘feather’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE) :
installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE) :
installation of package ‘covr’ had non-zero exit status
Given the above context, how can I change the above installation procedure such that it is easily maintained with package managers?
Additional Notes:
RStudio is not installed on my system.
R version information after installation with apt-get:
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

Answer 1

You should probably first update R (currently it is version 3.6.1-2). The documentation on how to set new repositories for R in Ubuntu is here: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/