Most installation of packages have non-zero exit status

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Most package I try to install have non-zero exit status. I tried hdi, leaps, glmnet. Every attempt to install the packages has failed.

I tried:

update.packages(repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/', ask=FALSE, checkBuilt=TRUE)

install.packages("Rcpp", type = "source")

I always have to work with an online R compiler which is very annoying. What could help here? Thank you.

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Can you give an specific example? "non-zero exit status" simply means that the package has not been installed, it tells us nothing about the cause, we need to see a complete output message to see what is going on.

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Thank you for your fast answer. The output message is:

For package hdi

library(hdi)
Fehler in library(hdi) : es gibt kein Paket namens ‘hdi’

For lars:

install.packages("leaps")
Installing package into ‘/home/gauss/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’  (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
versuche URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/leaps_3.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 28558 bytes (27 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 27 KB

* installing *source* package ‘leaps’ ...
** Paket ‘leaps’ erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
** libs
gfortran   -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong  -c leaps.f -o leaps.o
gfortran   -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-AitvI6/r-base-3.4.4=. -fstack-protector-strong  -c leapshdr.f -o leapshdr.o
g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o leaps.so leaps.o leapshdr.o -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: -lgfortran kann nicht gefunden werden
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:6: recipe for target 'leaps.so' failed
make: *** [leaps.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘leaps’
* removing ‘/home/gauss/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/leaps’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘leaps’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in 	‘/tmp/RtmpcpEhbN/downloaded_packages’

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I have the gfortran version 4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3.

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you say you have gfortran, but the error message seems clear that it can't find it where it expects it, so I would focus on that

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I had the GNU Fortran Version 7.5.0, which differed from my gcc and g++ versions (8.4.0). I updated it.

 sudo apt-get install gfortran-8

After restarting R, my problem get solved. Thanks for the help.

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