R package installation in Linux

I am trying to install a R package in Ubuntu using the following commands:

R CMD INSTALL rpart_4.1-5.tar.gz
install.packages("/home/rpart_4.1-5.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

* installing to library '/R/library'
* installing *source* package 'rpart' ...
** package 'rpart' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rpart'
* removing '/R/library/rpart'

I have GCC 4.8.2 installed and the command gcc -v provides the following output:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/tools/stow/gcc-4_8_2-2.x86-64.linux.centos.5/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.8.2/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/mnt/gcc/buildir/gcc-4.8.2
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC)

Last time I face the same issue, installing GCC (same version) solved it (posted a similar query on Stackoverflow on this topic). However, this time it is not working. Could someone please let me know what is causing this issue.

UPDATE: We are trying to manually install the dependencies to see if it works. We have installed Make and GCC 4.8.2:

However, I still get the following error:

* installing to library '/opt/vertica/R/library'
* installing *source* package 'rpart' ...
** package 'rpart' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
cc -std=gnu99 -I/opt/vertica/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -c anova.c -o anova.o
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [anova.o] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rpart'
* removing '/opt/vertica/R/library/rpart'

Are there any other dependencies that we need to install apart from Make and GCC?