httpuv error Microsoft R Open 3.4.3

Start by reproducing the reported devtools::install_github command on Ubuntu 14.04 and inspect the libuv/configure and config.status failures, especially the missing /usr/bin/sed and gcc messages. Done means establishing whether the failure is project-side or environment-specific and recording a reproducible validation.

I run sudo su - -c "R -e \"options(unzip = 'internal'); devtools::install_github('rstudio/httpuv')\"" on Ubuntu 14.04 server and I'm getting the following error:

cp -p -f libuv/m4/lt_obsolete.m4 libuv/m4/lt~obsolete.m4 (cd libuv \ && touch aclocal.m4 \ && touch -r aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.in \ && chmod +x configure \ && CC="gcc -std=gnu99" CFLAGS="-DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -g -O2 -fpic -fvisibility=hidden" AR="ar" RANLIB="ranlib" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib64" ./configure "--quiet") ./configure: line 6832: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 7056: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 8818: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 8824: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 8862: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 9270: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 9332: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 9333: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 9380: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 11006: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 11016: 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CC src/libuv_la-fs-poll.lo
no acceptable sed could be found in $PATH
make[1]: *** [src/libuv_la-fs-poll.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/RtmpxGohIo/devtools1f755fe49ac6/rstudio-httpuv-fb08323/src/libuv'
make: *** [libuv/.libs/libuv.a] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘httpuv’

• removing ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/library/httpuv’
• restoring previous ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/library/httpuv’
  Installation failed: Command failed (1)`

R sessionInfo()
`R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

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=en_US.UTF-8 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] RevoUtils_10.0.7 RevoUtilsMath_10.0.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.3
`