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user1769197
user1769197

Reputation: 2213

Package ‘XXX’ was installed before R 4.0.0: please re-install it

I am using R 4.0.2.

I manually installed 2 packages from cfcdae and Stats5303lib from here. I followed the instruction here to download Rtools and use it to install packages above.

Problem is

writeLines('PATH="${RTOOLS40_HOME}\\usr\\bin;${PATH}"', con = "~/.Renviron") # runs fine
Sys.which("make") #works fine
                               make 
"C:\\rtools40\\usr\\bin\\make.exe" 
install.packages("Stat5303libs_0.7-5.zip",repos=NULL,type="source") # these all run fine
install.packages("cfcdae_0.8-4.zip",repos=NULL,type="source")  # these all run fine

However, when I ran into problem below when I tried to run the libraries.

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘cfcdae’:
 package ‘cfcdae’ was installed before R 4.0.0: please re-install it

I tried below but still in vain.

update.packages(ask=FALSE, checkBuilt=TRUE)

Why is this happening? Is it because the package is too old?

Update:

As requested, i have changed my .libPaths() as below and updated the SessionInfo() as well.

> .libPaths()
[1] "C:/Users/UserME/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"
[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.0.2/library"   

R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Hong Kong SAR.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Hong Kong SAR.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Hong Kong SAR.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_Hong Kong SAR.1252    

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.4.6        rstudioapi_0.11     magrittr_1.5       
 [4] splines_4.0.2       MASS_7.3-51.6       tidyselect_1.1.0   
 [7] munsell_0.5.0       statmod_1.4.34      lattice_0.20-41    
[10] colorspace_1.4-1    R6_2.4.1            rlang_0.4.6        
[13] minqa_1.2.4         dplyr_1.0.0         tools_4.0.2        
[16] grid_4.0.2          nlme_3.1-148        gtable_0.3.0       
[19] ellipsis_0.3.1      lme4_1.1-23         tibble_3.0.1       
[22] lifecycle_0.2.0     numDeriv_2016.8-1.1 crayon_1.3.4       
[25] Matrix_1.2-18       nloptr_1.2.2.2      purrr_0.3.4        
[28] ggplot2_3.3.2       vctrs_0.3.1         glue_1.4.1         
[31] compiler_4.0.2      pillar_1.4.6        generics_0.0.2     
[34] scales_1.1.1        boot_1.3-25         lmerTest_3.1-2     
[37] pkgconfig_2.0.3

Upvotes: 24

Views: 40382

Answers (7)

Amleto
Amleto

Reputation: 584

All packages need to be reinstalled under the new version (4.0). I had to first remove and then reinstall all the packages.

The following worked for me:

# check your package library path 
.libPaths()

# grab old packages names
old_packages <- installed.packages(lib.loc = "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library")
old_packages <- as.data.frame(old_packages)
list.of.packages <- unlist(old_packages$Package)

# remove old packages 
remove.packages( installed.packages( priority = "NA" )[,1] )

# reinstall all packages 
new.packages <- list.of.packages[!(list.of.packages %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
if(length(new.packages)) install.packages(new.packages)
lapply(list.of.packages,function(x){library(x,character.only=TRUE)})

Update

After having installed the latest version of RStudio into your computer (in my case 4.2-arm64) you should still have access to the prior version folder (4.1). Make sure you grab your old packages from this folder, not the new one after you have checked your lib.path().

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Upvotes: 22

David Hammond
David Hammond

Reputation: 171

This code worked for me

  tmp = as.data.frame(installed.packages()) 
  max_version = max(as.numeric(substr(tmp$Built, 1,1)))
  tmp = tmp[as.numeric(substr(tmp$Built, 1,1)) < max_version,]
  lapply(tmp$Package, remove.packages)
  lapply(tmp$Package, function(x) install.packages(x, dependencies = TRUE))

Upvotes: 0

Sam Firke
Sam Firke

Reputation: 23014

In case anyone runs into this error message when running revdepcheck::revdep_check(), what worked for me was deleting the /revdep/ folder in my R package's directory.

Upvotes: 0

Brian Cady
Brian Cady

Reputation: 11

In a similar situation, I renamed 'site-library' to 'old-site-library', made a new empty 'site-library' folder and proceeded from there successfully.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Bradley
Adam Bradley

Reputation: 1604

If you're having trouble with this issue while using renv, you may need to look at your renv cache. I had to delete mine to force my projects to use newly-installed versions of packages instead of the old ones.

Upvotes: 0

Hong Ooi
Hong Ooi

Reputation: 57686

A zip file is a pre-built binary package for use on Windows, not a source package. Installing it with install.packages(*, type="source") won't make a difference. You'll need to contact the person/people who wrote these packages to build them again for R 4.0, or provide you with the real source -- this will usually be a .tar.gz file.

Upvotes: 1

mhovd
mhovd

Reputation: 4067

This issue is likely to happen when R is reading from an old directory, e.g. pre R 4.0.x .

Here is a few possible ways to fix this:

  • Check your .libPaths() - R could be reading packages from a R 3.x.x library, which would produce the error you are getting. Alternatively, try creating a new library directory (this is very likely to fix the issue).
  • update.packages(ask=FALSE, checkBuilt=TRUE) (which you have already tried)
  • Remove previous installations of R, and their associated directories.

Upvotes: 5

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