Problem installing tidyverse - non zero exit status?

[CarlosRodriguez528]

Hello all. I recently started using R again and as I am trying to install packages like tidyverse, I keep running into errors saying that dependencies like "vctrs" and other factors have non zero exit statuses. I'm not sure what this means or how to fix it. I've tried reinstalling RStudio and updating the packages I have but it's giving me the same errors. I'm attaching a screenshot of the code and I would greatly appreciate any help or advice as to how to go about fixing this.

[andresrcs]

You are not showing the complete console output so I can't know if we are seen the actual root cause of your problem but from what I can see you are missing Xcode in your system (not in R) and the recommended development tools for macOS systems.

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

These tools are required to compile packages from source and since you are using a very old R version, you are forced to install packages this way.

Note: Please do not post screenshots, it is considered a bad practice here, post formatted code instead, here is how to do it

FAQ: How to format your code

Formatting Code: the Basics All code or console output you include in your posts should be formatted properly. Luckily, this is very easy to do! Just use the code formatting button at the top of the post editing box: [image] Select some code Click the </> button! The code formatting button automatically adds special Markdown formatting symbols to whatever you selected. If you check the preview pane to the right of your post, you'll see that the forum software now outputs nicely formatted code . [04] The code formatting button is pretty smart! It can tell the difference between snippets of code that are part of a sentence and blocks of code that stand alone. …

[CarlosRodriguez528]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and for the advice. I had to install the Command Line tools package to my Mac, so you were correct about missing Xcode and the problem not being in R. I think this fixed the problem as now I do not receive the error codes and the packages have been installed correctly into R.

BTW: Thanks for the advice, I'm new so I'll make sure to format my code in the future if I run into anymore issues. Thanks once again!