devtools install problems in ubuntu

[myrainbowandsky]

Ubuntu 22.04
R version 4.3.3 (2024-02-29) -- "Angel Food Cake"
Copyright (C) 2024 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

> if(!"devtools" %in% row.names(installed.packages())){
  install.packages("devtools")
}

devtools::install_github("atomashevic/transforEmotion")
Installing package into ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘systemfonts’, ‘textshaping’, ‘ragg’, ‘pkgdown’

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/systemfonts_1.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 85584 bytes (83 KB)
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downloaded 83 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/textshaping_0.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 37960 bytes (37 KB)
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downloaded 37 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/ragg_1.3.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 430366 bytes (420 KB)
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downloaded 420 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pkgdown_2.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1261777 bytes (1.2 MB)
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downloaded 1.2 MB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/devtools_2.4.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 374718 bytes (365 KB)
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downloaded 365 KB

* installing *source* package ‘systemfonts’ ...
** package ‘systemfonts’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'fontconfig', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'freetype2', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lfontconfig -lfreetype
--------------------------- [ANTICONF] --------------------------------
Configuration failed to find the fontconfig freetype2 library. Try installing:
 * deb: libfontconfig1-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: fontconfig-devel (Fedora, EPEL)
 * csw: fontconfig_dev (Solaris)
 * brew: freetype (OSX)
If fontconfig freetype2 is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a fontconfig freetype2.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
-------------------------- [ERROR MESSAGE] ---------------------------
<stdin>:1:10: fatal error: fontconfig/fontconfig.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘systemfonts’
* removing ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/systemfonts’
ERROR: dependency ‘systemfonts’ is not available for package ‘textshaping’
* removing ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/textshaping’
ERROR: dependencies ‘systemfonts’, ‘textshaping’ are not available for package ‘ragg’
* removing ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/ragg’
ERROR: dependency ‘ragg’ is not available for package ‘pkgdown’
* removing ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/pkgdown’
ERROR: dependency ‘pkgdown’ is not available for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/home/lawrencexu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/devtools’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpqtepED/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘systemfonts’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘textshaping’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘ragg’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘pkgdown’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status
Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called ‘devtools’

[atomashevic]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

It seems like you have problems with devtools installation.

This part of the message is relevant for you:

--------------------------- [ANTICONF] --------------------------------
Configuration failed to find the fontconfig freetype2 library. Try installing:
 * deb: libfontconfig1-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)

You should install the missing library, just run

sudo apt -y install libfontconfig1-dev

in the system terminal and then try again installing everything in R.

Let me know if this helps.

[myrainbowandsky]

Thank you. it works.