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Tuan Anh
Tuan Anh

Reputation: 41

Error when install package dplyr in R. Error in install.packages : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

I tried to install package dplyr but it always show the error: 

Error in install.packages : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Here is the console history:

> install.packages("dplyr")
also installing the dependency ‘BH’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/BH_1.60.0-2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 15529281 bytes (14.8 MB)
downloaded 14.8 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/dplyr_0.5.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2409178 bytes (2.3 MB)
downloaded 2.3 MB

Error in install.packages : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 4

Views: 12416

Answers (7)

Daniel Vartanian
Daniel Vartanian

Reputation: 132

Like @minette-van-zyl, this issue disappear when I disabled Avast (don't know why, though).

Upvotes: 0

Minette Van Zyl
Minette Van Zyl

Reputation: 21

Disabling my Avast antivirus for 10 minutes while the package was installed resolved my proble.

Upvotes: 1

Naveen Nair
Naveen Nair

Reputation: 709

It's a bit weird, but it worked for me.

Just closing the installed packages win-library folder while installing package resolved the mentioned error.

Upvotes: 4

JellisHeRo
JellisHeRo

Reputation: 537

I had the same problem where my rsession.exe was essentially being blocked by my Advanced System Care software from accessing this file index.html. When I clicked on index.html, I wasn't sent to any particular file just the base [This PC] folder home page on Windows 10. The error you had was present for me throughout 3.4.3, 3.4.3patched, and 3.2, so it was probably a problem I was dealing with that transcended the versions themselves.

I don't know why exactly the access was really needed, but allowing it got rid of the problem for me.

Upvotes: 0

Jetta Lingam
Jetta Lingam

Reputation: 31

I had the same problem in R3.4 version, it was solved by using 

install.packages("tidyverse",dependencies = TRUE,repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

Upvotes: 3

user5099519
user5099519

Reputation:

I tried changing my repository, and .libPaths variable, those didn't work. Simply rebooting my windows machine did the trick for me.

Upvotes: 1

sheldonzy
sheldonzy

Reputation: 5971

I had this problem in R for Windows 3.4

  1. Go to the CRAN webpage and download and install the R 3.4.0 Patched Build for Windows
  2. Run Rstudio as administrator.
  3. Install the package as usual.

Upvotes: 6

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