installation of package ... had non-zero exit status

[jacobi101]

Hello, I'm trying to learn R for a project, so I'm very new to this and therefore this might be an obvious question but here goes.

I'm following a guide on what to download to set up all the R tools I need here:

Using-StatsBomb-Data-In-R.pdf

It is directing me to first download RStudio, which I've done, and then use it to download the following packages: tidyverse, devtools, ggplot2. Which downloaded fine to my knowledge.

When I tried to download "StatsBombR" it gave me an error message, I will post the whole linefeed here:

Downloading GitHub repo statsbomb/StatsBombR@HEAD
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpINyEgW\remotes5b24272e2809\statsbomb-StatsBombR-0aa173f/DESCRIPTION'

• preparing 'StatsBombR': (542ms)
  √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
• checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
• checking for empty or unneeded directories
  Omitted 'LazyData' from DESCRIPTION
• building 'StatsBombR_0.1.0.tar.gz'
  Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Jacob/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
  (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'StatsBombR' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Warning: replacing previous import 'foreach::when' by 'purrr::when' when loading 'StatsBombR'
  Warning: replacing previous import 'jsonlite::flatten' by 'purrr::flatten' when loading 'StatsBombR'
  Warning: replacing previous import 'foreach::accumulate' by 'purrr::accumulate' when loading 'StatsBombR'
  Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :
  there is no package called 'SDMTools'
  Calls: ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart -> doWithOneRestart
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'StatsBombR'
• removing 'C:/Users/Jacob/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/StatsBombR'
  Warning message:
  In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/Jacob/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpINyEgW/file5b247c8b3ff0/StatsBombR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

I'm not sure how to deal with this error message, I have googled it and I'm not getting anything actionable. Please let me know if I can provide any other information on how to successfully download this package.

Thank you in advance!

[aghaynes]

I guess you installed via remotes or devtools? That doesn't install missing dependencies by default. Looks like that is biting you - there is no package called 'SDMTools' is the clue. Either install it seperately (install.packages('SDMTools')) and try again or add dependencies = TRUE to your call to remotes::install_github (or devtools::install_github if thats what you're using instead).

[jacobi101]

Installing an older version of SDMTools worked for this! Thank you!