This error occurs when your last package installation attempt has interrupted abnormally, e.g. Should that still not work try to explicitly install the previous version of the package using remotes::install_version() as described above. This is typically the case in the first few days after a new package version has been published on CRAN. When you do answer no R will install the previous version of the package for which pre-complied binaries are available rather than the latest version which is only available from source. Attempting to install from source when you don’t have a proper development environment is guaranteed to lead to failing package installations. you installed the Rtools software, you should say no. Unless you have a proper development environment on your Windows machine, i.e. It is typically followed by the seemingly innocent question: Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation?. This is a common error when using R on Windows. There Are Binary Versions Available but the Source Versions Are Later You are starting from a clean state so to say. Rprofile and doesn’t restore any saved objects.

This will start an R session that will ignore your. Then go to your terminal-or CMD on Windows-and type R -vanilla. As a next step I’d recommend to close any currently active R session. I’d highly recommend to do neither of those. Rprofile file or you load saved objects into your workspace when starting R. If you still get the same error you likely have a library(pkg) call in your. When you encounter this error the first thing you should do is restart your R session and try to install again without loading any packages.

But if that package is already loaded you’ll get the Updating loaded packages error. This is very convenient because not having to compile packages yourself has a huge advantage: it’s (much) faster. Pre-complied means that the package has been complied on another machine with the same OS as yours and subsequently uploaded to CRAN. When type = 'binary', install.packages() will attempt to download a pre-compiled version of the requested package for the operating system (OS) you are working on. The former is the default on Windows and some macOS versions while on Linux it’s the latter. The install.packages() function has a type parameter that controls whether a package is installed from pre-complied binaries or from source. Any subsequent call to install.packages() will make use of this globally set option unless you overwrite it by passing another value to the repos parameter.

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