Error when Install openssl package in the new R-3.5.0 version in the SUSE Linux

In our SUSE Linux 11 system, there is a number of R version installed as module avil. Now i installed R-3.5.0 (with the _SL suffix) and update the R-studio server and configure R-studio to use R-3.5.0_SL as default.
Now when user/me try to install Several dependencies, it cannot be installed, for example, the package “openssl”. I get the following error (using the command line R or from R-Studio):

The major difference I found in R-3.5.0 with the existing version. It has new directory lib64. This directory contains R and pkgconfig. I am new in R environment. Is any of you could help me to do the process.

I tried several ways to install (manually download the package and use the local link, “R CMD INSTALL” is not working on our server, don’t know as i am new here)

install.packages(‘openssl’)


trying URL ‘https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/src/contrib/openssl_1.0.1.tar.gz
Content type ‘application/octet-stream’ length 1194261 bytes (1.1 MB)

downloaded 1.1 MB

  • installing source package ‘openssl’ …
    ** package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    Using PKG_CFLAGS=
    ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
    Configuration failed because openssl was not found. Try installing:
  • deb: libssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
  • rpm: openssl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
  • csw: libssl_dev (Solaris)
  • brew: openssl@1.1 (Mac OSX)
    If openssl is already installed, check that ‘pkg-config’ is in your
    PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a openssl.pc file. If pkg-config
    is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
    R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars=‘INCLUDE_DIR=… LIB_DIR=…’

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘openssl’

  • removing ‘/R/R-3.5.0_SL/lib64/R/library/openssl’

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpCM5CD4/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages(“openssl”) :
installation of package ‘openssl’ had non-zero exit status