errors while installing rstudio on Ubuntu 14.0.4

Install sudo apt-get install r-base and then launch rsudio from the bin folder

Error while installing xlsx package:

First install rJava which is a dependent for xlsx

sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava

Error while loading xml package:

> install.packages("XML") Installing package into ‘/home/bala/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/XML_3.98-1.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1582216 bytes (1.5 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.5 Mb * installing *source* package ‘XML’ ... ** package ‘XML’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... rm: cannot remove 'a.out.dSYM': Is a directory a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for xml2-config... no Cannot find xml2-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’ * removing ‘/home/bala/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/XML’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘XML’ had non-zero exit status The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpcGhePy/downloaded_packages’

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Fix: Run the following command

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml