Installation package problem - IOS - had non-zero exit status

[mara]

Does it install in R, and somehow fail in RStudio? (If so, you should be able to access the package in RStudio if installed in vanilla R). If not, it's likely not an issue with the IDE itself (see FAQ below for disambiguation)

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

To figure this out it will help to have more of the error message. The non-zero exit status is generic (basically – something went awry!) but the message itself should contain hints that will help with diagnosing the problem.