title: Zoo package compilation error
body: <p>I'm running RStudio Server and am unable to install the <code>zoo</code> package. The error message I get is as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Installing package(s) into ‘/home/tsajid/R/library’
        (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
        trying URL '<a href="http://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-9.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-9.tar.gz</a>'
        Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 807084 bytes (788 Kb)
        opened URL
        ==================================================
        downloaded 788 Kb</p>
    
    <p>** installing <em>source</em> package ‘zoo’ ...<br>
        ** package ‘zoo’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked<br>
        ** libs
        sh: make: command not found
        ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘zoo’<br>
        ** removing ‘/home/tsajid/R/library/zoo’
        Warning in install.packages :<br>
          installation of package ‘zoo’ had non-zero exit status</p>
    
    <p>The downloaded source packages are in
            ‘/tmp/RtmpsKlJWz/downloaded_packages’</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I tried installing the package archive file but I get an identical error message. </p>
  
  <p>Session info:</p>
  
  <pre><code>R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
  Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
  
  locale:
   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
   [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
  [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
  
  attached base packages:
  [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
  
  other attached packages:
  [1] svMisc_0.9-65
  
  loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] tools_2.15.1
  </code></pre>