Issues to install plotly under Ubuntu 16.04 using RStudio

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Hi,

I used plotly on my Mac without any major issues in RStudio. Now I wanted to use it on my laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 and can’t find the library. I had no issues installing other packages.
Here is my code:

install.packages(“plotly”)
Installing package into ‘/home/johannes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘curl’, ‘openssl’, ‘httr’

trying URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/curl_2.3.tar.gz’
Content type ‘application/x-gzip’ length 400460 bytes (391 KB)

downloaded 391 KB

trying URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/openssl_0.9.5.tar.gz’
Content type ‘application/x-gzip’ length 1236042 bytes (1.2 MB)

downloaded 1.2 MB

trying URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/httr_1.2.1.tar.gz’
Content type ‘application/x-gzip’ length 133398 bytes (130 KB)

downloaded 130 KB

trying URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/plotly_4.5.6.tar.gz’
Content type ‘application/x-gzip’ length 735400 bytes (718 KB)

downloaded 718 KB

  • installing source package ‘curl’ …
    ** package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing libcurl.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libcurl' found Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing libcurl.pc’
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package ‘libcurl’ found
    Using PKG_CFLAGS=
    Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
    ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
    Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
  • deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
  • rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
  • csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris)
    If libcurl is already installed, check that ‘pkg-config’ is in your
    PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config
    is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
    R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars=‘INCLUDE_DIR=… LIB_DIR=…’

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’

  • removing ‘/home/johannes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/curl’
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
  • installing source package ‘openssl’ …
    ** package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    Using PKG_CFLAGS=
    Using PKG_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto
    ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
    Configuration failed because openssl was not found. Try installing:
  • deb: libssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
  • rpm: openssl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
  • csw: libssl_dev (Solaris)
  • brew: openssl (Mac OSX)
    If openssl is already installed, check that ‘pkg-config’ is in your
    PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a openssl.pc file. If pkg-config
    is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
    R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars=‘INCLUDE_DIR=… LIB_DIR=…’

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘openssl’

  • removing ‘/home/johannes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/openssl’
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘openssl’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependencies ‘curl’, ‘openssl’ are not available for package ‘httr’
  • removing ‘/home/johannes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/httr’
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
    ERROR: dependency ‘httr’ is not available for package ‘plotly’
  • removing ‘/home/johannes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/plotly’
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘plotly’ had non-zero exit status

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

library(plotly)
Error in library(plotly) : there is no package called ‘plotly’

Thanks for your help

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Looks like an issue with installing the dependency openssl. Have you tried reaching out to the maintainers of the openssl package?