I am facing error while installing R package textshaping

Question

I am getting this error while installing packages.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘textshaping’ ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘textshaping’

• removing ‘/home/Saniya/R/si-s/renv/staging/1/textshaping’ Error: install of package 'textshaping' failed [error code 1]

What is wrong and what should I do. I am new with R. Please help.

Stretto

Please include the command that you used for installation and the complete error, warning or other messages. Also the operating system and whether you are installing from source or not. – Avernus

You might try installing a binary with utils::install.packages("textshaping", type = "binary"). – Petiole

Answer 1

1. In bash:

   sudo apt install libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev
   

2. in RStudio

   install.packages("textshaping", dependencies = TRUE)
   

Kienan

on RHEL 8: sudo yum install harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel – Britannia

for those using macos : brew install harfbuzz fribidi – Rickert

Answer 2

I also tried to follow this package directly in R, and later found that using conda or mamba is so simple:

conda install -n R4.32 -c conda-forge r-textshaping

Rivard