Error installing the package

[nikosGeography]

Hi, trying to install the package on a Windows 11 machine, using install.packages("httpuv") but I am getting the following error:

thread.h:4:10: fatal error: uv.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include <uv.h>
      |          ^~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0/etc/x64/Makeconf:296: callbackqueue.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'httpuv'

I am not sure what that is, any suggestions?

The entire text from the console

> install.packages("httpuv")

  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
       binary source needs_compilation
httpuv 1.6.15 1.6.16              TRUE

installing the source package ‘httpuv’

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/httpuv_1.6.16.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1890033 bytes (1.8 MB)
downloaded 1.8 MB

* installing *source* package 'httpuv' ...
** this is package 'httpuv' version '1.6.16'
** package 'httpuv' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation

   **********************************************
   WARNING: this package has a configure script
         It probably needs manual configuration
   **********************************************


** libs
make: pkg-config: No such file or directory
using C compiler: 'gcc.exe (x86_64-posix-seh-rev2, Built by MinGW-Builds project) 14.2.0'
using C++ compiler: 'G__~1.EXE (x86_64-posix-seh-rev2, Built by MinGW-Builds project) 14.2.0'
make: pkg-config: No such file or directory
g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600 -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/later/include' -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/Rcpp/include'   -I"c:/rtools45/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"    -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS   -O2 -Wall  -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign    -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600 -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/later/include' -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/Rcpp/include'   -I"c:/rtools45/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"    -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS   -O2 -Wall  -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign    -c callback.cpp -o callback.o
g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600 -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/later/include' -I'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/Rcpp/include'   -I"c:/rtools45/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"    -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS   -O2 -Wall  -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign    -c callbackqueue.cpp -o callbackqueue.o
In file included from tqueue.h:7,
                 from callbackqueue.h:4,
                 from callbackqueue.cpp:2:
thread.h:4:10: fatal error: uv.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include <uv.h>
      |          ^~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0/etc/x64/Makeconf:296: callbackqueue.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'httpuv'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/httpuv'
* restoring previous 'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library/httpuv'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httpuv’ had non-zero exit status

Session info

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26100)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.5.0    tools_4.5.0       rstudioapi_0.17.1

EDIT 1

I used the pak package to install the package and it worked. What I did was pak::pkg_install(httpuv, dependencies = TRUE). I don't know why it worked.