Re: [R] Unable to install ggplot2; using R 3.1.2 and RStudio 0.98.1091 in Linux Mint 17.1

@Sarah Goslee, Many thanks for your excellent help. It's a measure of my inexperience with R (and with compiling in Linux) that I failed to recognize the significance of the g++ error message, and that I was previously unaware that g++ is a (the?) GNU compiler for C++. After adding g++ to my

[R] Unable to install ggplot2; using R 3.1.2 and RStudio 0.98.1091 in Linux Mint 17.1

My attempts to install and then load ggplot2 have repeatedly failed. Here is the pertinent set of commands and responses: - install.packages(ggplot2) Installing package into