I have updated my OS to Ubuntu 18.04 recently and twitteR R package is not working anymore.
I am having the following error message during setup_twitter_oauth
.
> setup_twitter_oauth(api_key,api_secret)
[1] "Using browser based authentication"
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
unable to load shared object '/home/my-laptop/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/curl/libs/curl.so':
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by /home/my-laptop/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/curl/libs/curl.so)
I was trying to install libcurl3
. But the installation process wants to remove my r installation as well as libcurl4
. This is what I get,
my-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3
[sudo] password for my-laptop:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cdbs dh-translations fonts-mathjax intltool jq libblas-dev libc-ares2
libhttp-parser2.7.1 libjq1 libjs-bootstrap libjs-highlight.js
libjs-jquery-datatables libjs-jquery-metadata libjs-jquery-tablesorter
libjs-mathjax libjs-twitter-bootstrap liblapack-dev libncurses5-dev
libnlopt0 libonig4 libquantlib0v5 libreadline-dev libtinfo-dev libuv1
node-highlight.js nodejs nodejs-doc python3-scour r-doc-html scour
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libcurl4 r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-cran-boot r-cran-class
r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth
r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet
r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial r-cran-survival r-recommended
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 21 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/214 kB of archives.
After this operation, 60,0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Any idea how to solve this problem?
My session.info()
is as follows,
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.9
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12 httr_1.3.1 compiler_3.4.4 rjson_0.2.15 R6_2.2.2 DBI_0.8 tools_3.4.4
[8] yaml_2.1.18 bit64_0.9-7 openssl_1.0.1
2
Answers
The R package
curl
was compiled againstlibcurl3
, which is no longer installed. If you reinstall thecurl
package, it compiles against the installedlibcurl4
, provided the necessary development packages are installed. Alternatively you can use the pre-compiled package.I had a similar error when trying to publish HTML from RStudio to RPubs.
Reinstalling
curl
didn’t solve the issue for me, but this did the trick:install.packages("RCurl")