Installing rmarkdown

I am trying to download RMarkdown in RStudio but I keep getting this message:

install.packages("rmarkdown")
also installing the dependencies ‘markdown’, ‘knitr’, ‘mime’


  There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
          binary source needs_compilation
markdown     0.9    1.1              TRUE
knitr       1.22   1.24             FALSE
mime         0.6    0.7              TRUE
rmarkdown   1.12   1.15             FALSE

Do you want to install from sources the packages which need compilation?
y/n: y
installing the source packages ‘markdown’, ‘knitr’, ‘mime’, ‘rmarkdown’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/markdown_1.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81050 bytes (79 KB)
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downloaded 79 KB

trying URL '://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/knitr_1.24.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 882405 bytes (861 KB)
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downloaded 861 KB

trying URL '://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/mime_0.7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13130 bytes (12 KB)
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downloaded 12 KB

trying URL '://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rmarkdown_1.15.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3174782 bytes (3.0 MB)
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downloaded 3.0 MB

Warning in strptime(xx, f <- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = tz) :
  unknown timezone 'America/EST'
* installing *source* package ‘mime’ ...
** package ‘mime’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning in format.POSIXlt(as.POSIXlt(x, tz), format, usetz, ...) :
  unknown timezone 'America/EST'
** libs
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘mime’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/mime’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘mime’ had non-zero exit status
Warning in strptime(xx, f <- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = tz) :
  unknown timezone 'America/EST'
ERROR: dependency ‘mime’ is not available for package ‘markdown’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/markdown’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘markdown’ had non-zero exit status
Warning in strptime(xx, f <- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = tz) :
  unknown timezone 'America/EST'
ERROR: dependency ‘markdown’ is not available for package ‘knitr’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/knitr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘knitr’ had non-zero exit status
Warning in strptime(xx, f <- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = tz) :
  unknown timezone 'America/EST'
ERROR: dependencies ‘knitr’, ‘mime’ are not available for package ‘rmarkdown’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/rmarkdown’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘rmarkdown’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/private/var/folders/1n/sfp4mkld4_dd4jvw8mkfrg7c0000gn/T/Rtmprh45XY/downloaded_packages’

What happens if you don’t try to compile (answer “no” instead of “yes”) and just install the precompiled versions?

Have you installed Apple’s developer tools? If not, I think that’s your problem.

Do you have xcode installed in your system? You need it for compiling packages on MacOS

xcode-select --install

Here are some installation instructions

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Just installed and updated R which solved the issue. Thank you everyone for your help.

Best

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