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A. Reynolds
A. Reynolds

Reputation: 65

R Package Error(s)

I'm running into a bunch of errors when trying to install any packages on R 3.4.4 on Windows 7. Originally, installed.packages() wasn't even working. I had to create the temp directory manually that it was trying to access. I've previously installed/uninstalled R on my machine before, so I'm guessing some of these problems might be stemming from that. I can now view my installed packages.

If I try something as simple as install.packages("tidyverse"), I'll get the following:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/areynolds/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Error in readRDS(dest) : unknown input format

Attempting update.packages() yields the same error. I've deleted my .Rhistory which saves to my Documents folder. My .libPaths() is the following:

[1] "C:/Users/areynolds/Documents/R/win-library/3.4" [2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.4/library"

I'm not really sure what else to try. I've been looking everywhere for the same problem but it's always a little different. I've tried specifying arguments to install.packages like dependencies = TRUE or lib = path. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3656

Answers (1)

stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52268

I was getting the same error.

Closing RStudio completely, then reopening it worked for me.

Note: simply restarting the R Session (e.g. .rs.restartR()) did not work - I am not sure why

Upvotes: 1

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