I kept trying to download the package including knitr, but eventually, I couldn't. An error kept popping up.
I uninstalled R and R studio, reinstalled, and restarted them, but failed to resolve the error.
I also tried to install knitr using the Tools > Install Packages method. But an error occurred as shown in the following picture:
What is exdir? What should I do?
R has problems with setting the package library in a cloud-synced folder (OneDrive) and also folders with non-ASCII characters in their path, you are using both. I recommend you to change your default package library to a non-synced folder wich path contains ASCII characters only.
You can change the default library folder by setting your R_LIBS_SITE environmental variable in a .Reviron or .Rprofile file. For example:
# In a .Renviron file you can set it by adding a line like this one with the desired location
R_LIBS_SITE="C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-4.1.2\\library"
For a more detailed explanation, you can read this blog post
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