Build fails if `patch` not installed about hdf5r HOT 1 OPEN

> remotes::install_github("hhoeflin/hdf5r")
Downloading GitHub repo hhoeflin/hdf5r@HEAD
── R CMD build ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpA7GpSG/remotes96120a9dfc1/hhoeflin-hdf5r-45✔  checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpA7GpSG/remotes96120a9dfc1/hhoeflin-hdf5r-450d483/DESCRIPTION’ (748ms)
─  preparing ‘hdf5r’:
✔  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─  cleaning src
─  running ‘cleanup’
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
─  building ‘hdf5r_1.3.8.tar.gz’
   
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘hdf5r’ ...
** using staged installation
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for h5cc... /usr/bin/h5cc
checking for HDF5 libraries... yes (version 1.10.7)
checking for hdf5.h... yes
checking for H5Fcreate in -lhdf5... yes
checking for hdf5_hl.h... yes
checking for H5LTpath_valid in -lhdf5_hl... yes
checking for main in -lhdf5_hl... yes
checking for matching HDF5 Fortran wrapper... /usr/bin/h5fc
Found hdf5 with version: 1.10.7
checking for ggrep... /usr/bin/grep
checking whether /usr/bin/grep accepts -o... yes
checking for ggrep... (cached) /usr/bin/grep
checking whether /usr/bin/grep accepts -o... yes
Using variables:
HDF5_LIBS= -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial  -lcrypto  -lcurl  -lpthread  -lsz  -lz  -ldl  -lm  -L. -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lz -lm
HDF5_CFLAGS=
HDF5_CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial 
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
using C compiler: ‘gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0’
cp 1_10_3/*.c 1_10_3/*.h .
if [ "1.10.6" != "" ]; then patch -p2 < patch_1.10.6; fi
/bin/bash: line 1: patch: command not found
make: *** [Makevars:28: copy_auto_files] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘hdf5r’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/hdf5r’
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘/tmp/RtmpA7GpSG/file96127fef41/hdf5r_1.3.8.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status