Error when trying to install glmnet 'package not available for R version'

[meghanbyrne]

I am getting the error when trying to install glmnet:

install.packages("glmnet")
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘glmnet’ is not available (for R version 3.5.2)

I do not have admin privileges to update my version of R. Is there another way to address this?

Thank you!

[andresrcs]

You could try installing an older version with remotes::install_version() but I don't know which one is compatible with R 3.5.2

[meghanbyrne]

Thanks for your quick reply. I tried: remotes::install_version('glmnet', version = '2.0-18')

...and am getting the following error message about compilation failure and gfortran:

gfortran -fPIC -g -O2 -c glmnet5dpclean.f -o glmnet5dpclean.o
make: gfortran: No such file or directory
make: *** [glmnet5dpclean.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘glmnet’

• removing ‘/Users/meghanbyrne/Library/R/3.5/library/glmnet’
  Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from URL:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘/var/folders/b7/11vgsqxs32v11ss28278gl7h0000gp/T//Rtmp6U26K5/remotes8d95368fd916/glmnet’ had non-zero exit status

Any help on this would be appreciated

[andresrcs]

You need to install the recommended development tools for MacOS systems
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/