R script returns "Error in library(httr) : there is no package called ‘httr’" - what should I do?

Question

I am trying to run an R code in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for sending SMS via Plivo, in my script I am using a library

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
 library(httr) 
 code ....

After running this I get the error below

Error in library(httr) : there is no package called ‘httr’
Execution halted

Can anyone please help me?

N0rbert · Answer 1 · 2018-10-25T20:42:37.050

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You need to run your R session and then install httr package into it:

install.packages("httr")

then you can use this library.

Some R packages may need some development libraries (check messages during package compilation for the hints). In this particular case we need the following:

sudo apt-get install r-base-core libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Note: on modern Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 18.10 the httr is packaged as r-cran-httr.

edited Oct 25 '18 at 20:42

answered Oct 24 '18 at 20:35

N0rbert

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Thanks, it did work after installing the dependency like this sudo apt-get install libssl-dev – zesan Oct 24 '18 at 21:46
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So you could accept my answer :) – N0rbert Oct 24 '18 at 21:54
Of course, I accept yours, I wrote something additionally to help others if someone faces the same dependency issue. – zesan Oct 25 '18 at 18:49
Updated. Added info about dev-packages :) – N0rbert Oct 25 '18 at 20:31
Outstanding work. – zesan Oct 25 '18 at 21:51

R script returns "Error in library(httr) : there is no package called ‘httr’" - what should I do?

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