digest installation

been trying to use reprex but it says i don't have the package digest and now that i have been trying to install digest it throws out an error , i have tried various solutions posted on the internet nothing seems to be working as of now so i am kinda stuck for a while now

install.packages('digest')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Home/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/digest_0.6.25.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 249480 bytes (243 KB)
downloaded 243 KB

package ‘digest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning in install.packages :
** cannot remove prior installation of package ‘digest’**
Warning in install.packages :
** problem copying C:\Users\Home\Documents\R\win-library\3.6\00LOCK\digest\libs\x64\digest.dll to C:\Users\Home\Documents\R\win-library\3.6\digest\libs\x64\digest.dll: Permission denied**
Warning in install.packages :
** restored ‘digest’**

The downloaded binary packages are in
** C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpofnvxv\downloaded_packages**

Try following the instructions on the error message

And manually delete this folder

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