Can't install the package

[MislavSag]

I get error when installinf devtools on Ubuntu 22

> install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into ‘/home/sn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘textshaping’, ‘ragg’, ‘pkgdown’

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/textshaping_0.3.7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 35100 bytes (34 KB)
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downloaded 34 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/ragg_1.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 430242 bytes (420 KB)
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downloaded 420 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pkgdown_2.0.9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 855137 bytes (835 KB)
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downloaded 835 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/devtools_2.4.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 374718 bytes (365 KB)
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downloaded 365 KB

* installing *source* package ‘textshaping’ ...
** package ‘textshaping’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
Package harfbuzz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `harfbuzz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'harfbuzz' found
Package fribidi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fribidi.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fribidi' found
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lfreetype -lharfbuzz -lfribidi -lpng
--------------------------- [ANTICONF] --------------------------------
Configuration failed to find the harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi library. Try installing:
 * deb: libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel (Fedora, EPEL)
 * csw: libharfbuzz_dev libfribidi_dev (Solaris)
 * brew: harfbuzz fribidi (OSX)
If harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi.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 MESSAGE] ---------------------------
<stdin>:1:10: fatal error: hb-ft.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘textshaping’
* removing ‘/home/sn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/textshaping’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘textshaping’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘textshaping’ is not available for package ‘ragg’
* removing ‘/home/sn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/ragg’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ragg’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘ragg’ is not available for package ‘pkgdown’
* removing ‘/home/sn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/pkgdown’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘pkgdown’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘pkgdown’ is not available for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/home/sn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/devtools’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/Rtmpwl2Aeh/downloaded_packages’
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Here is the session info:

  R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.10.0 
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8       
 [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C              
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

time zone: Europe/Rome
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] R6_2.5.1          RPostgres_1.4.6   bit_4.0.5         AzureAuth_1.3.3   rappdirs_0.3.3   
 [6] remotes_2.5.0     AzureGraph_1.3.4  blob_1.2.4        AzureStor_3.7.0   pkgconfig_2.0.3  
[11] bit64_4.0.5       lifecycle_1.0.4   cli_3.6.2         vctrs_0.6.5       DBI_1.2.2        
[16] compiler_4.4.0    httr_1.4.7        rstudioapi_0.16.0 tools_4.4.0       AzureRMR_2.4.4   
[21] hms_1.1.3         rlang_1.1.3       fs_1.6.4       

[jennybc]

Did you try any of the suggested remedies?

Configuration failed to find the harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi library. Try installing:
 * deb: libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel (Fedora, EPEL)
 * csw: libharfbuzz_dev libfribidi_dev (Solaris)
 * brew: harfbuzz fribidi (OSX)

[hadley]

You can also try using pak::pak("devtools") which will give you more diagnostics.