Error in library(qdap) : there is no package called ‘qdap’ - r

Question

I've installed qdap:
install.packages("qdap")
It takes a while to donwload everything but the console fills up with all the downloads and at the end I get a message like this:
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘qdap’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpeTzuKz/downloaded_packages’
> library(qdap)
Error in library(qdap) : there is no package called ‘qdap’
>
This SO post led me to try adding dependencies = TRUE but the issue remains.
Here's session info
sessionInfo():
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/openblas-base/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/libopenblasp-r0.2.18.so
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0
Another post I found yesterday (cannot find it again now with a Google search) suggested I remove existing qdap files within my library directory, close my session, restart and fresh install. There was no package exactly called qdap but some with qdap in the name which I removed. My issue remained, I am unable to install qdap.
I'm not sure what other information to provide? Any help appreciated.
Here are the errors generated when attempting to install qdap:
./configure: line 3736: /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/bin/java: No
such file or directory no configure: error: Java interpreter
'/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/bin/java' does not work ERROR:
configuration failed for package ‘rJava’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rJava’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rJava’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘rJava’ is not available for
package ‘openNLPdata’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/openNLPdata’ Warning
in install.packages : installation of package ‘openNLPdata’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘rJava’ is not available for
package ‘xlsxjars’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/xlsxjars’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘xlsxjars’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependency ‘rJava’ is not available for
package ‘venneuler’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/venneuler’ Warning
in install.packages : installation of package ‘venneuler’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘openNLPdata’, ‘rJava’ are
not available for package ‘openNLP’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/openNLP’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘openNLP’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘rJava’, ‘xlsxjars’ are not
available for package ‘xlsx’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/xlsx’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘xlsx’ had
non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘openNLP’, ‘venneuler’,
‘xlsx’ are not available for package ‘qdap’
* removing ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/qdap’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘qdap’ had
non-zero exit status
Since this looks like a rJava issue I found this post and tried the top voted answer in the terminal:
apt-get install r-cran-rjava
Resulted in:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
I'm hoping theres a way around this without being a root user? I'm not as familiar with linux. I'm able to install other p packages.

Answer 1

There is a solution for this issue when you have no root access.
Download Java (make sure to install JDK) and install it inside your $HOME
You can do that as Oracle's Java is just a tar.gz package
Make sure to set JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/opt/my_jdk_installation
Once you have Java you have to reconfigure R
Simply tell R where your Java is
R CMD javareconf \
JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME} \
JAVA=${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java \
JAVAC=${JAVA_HOME}/bin/javac \
JAVAH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin/javah \
JAR=${JAVA_HOME}/bin/jar \
JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/server \
JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I${JAVA_HOME}/include -I${JAVA_HOME}/include/linux"
Since now, R should use your personal installation of Java. This way, you don't depend on sys admin.