How to fix R package installation fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory
Problem:
While installing some R package, you see an error message like
install_bz2_dev.sh
cram/cram_io.c:57:10: fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory
57 | #include
| ^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Solution
You need to install the libbz2
development headers. On Ubuntu, you can do that using
example.sh
sudo apt -y install libbz2-dev
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