Error installation R-packages on Linux Mint 18

Question

It is somehow impossible for me to install new R-packages on my Linux Mint 18 system. I need to install ggplot2 and car. After the input

install.packages("ggplot2")

R is working for a very long time and after this, I get the output

Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status ERROR: dependencies ‘digest’, ‘plyr’, ‘reshape2’, ‘scales’, ‘tibble’, ‘lazyeval’ are not available for package ‘ggplot2’ * removing ‘/home/phine/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/ggplot2’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpsK4IjC/downloaded_packages’ Warnmeldung: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, : there is no package called ‘ggplot2’

The same happens, if I am trying to install the car package.

So far I was trying to follow the help from R-bloggers (https://www.r-bloggers.com/installing-r-packages/), but I get the same output.

Further I tried: (Error installing ggplot2)

if(!require(ggplot2)) install.packages('dplyr',dependencies = TRUE)

The output is the same as above

there is no package called ‘ggplot2’

After this I read the posts on this page (Can't install R packages on Linux Mint 17). After running in the terminal,

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

I get the output (this is a free translation. Unfortunately my terminal is speaking german, even if I change the system language to english)

E: package »r-base-dev« has no installation candidate

Input:sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcpp

Output:E: package r-cran-rcpp not found.

I hope my question is clear and precise enough. I am beginner in using R and Linux.

have you done sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade? Are these coming up with errors? I'm running Mint18 and have no problems with r installation. Do you have r-base installed? What does your /etc/apt/sources.list contain? Does stackoverflow.com/questions/21631191/… relate? — marts
Have you check if you have deb https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Note: trusty is for Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. After that do sudo apt-get update then install r-base-dev. See more here — Tung
I included deb https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ to my sorces.list, ran the uptate and tried to install the r-base-dev again, but it dident work. My output looks exactly the same like here [stackoverflow.com/questions/21631191/…. The problem is, that I really can't find this "Software Sources" window in Mint. Further I ran sudo aptitude search r-base-dev and there it seems, that r-base-dev already exists: p r-base-dev - GNU R installation of auxiliary GNU R pack. — JoBu

rnso rnso · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-15T11:33:46

Try installing after starting R in the vanilla mode:

$  R --vanilla

It is likely to work. If not post the errors.

Error installation R-packages on Linux Mint 18

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