Hi, all, newbie here. I have been trying to install tidyverse and I keep hitting this snag:
Error in install.packages : cannot remove prior installation of package ‘readr’
After the first time I updated my R and RStudio.
The second time I tried to remove readr from the packages//system library window but this seems to fail.
This what I have so far:
Error in install.packages : cannot remove prior installation of package ‘readr’
> remove.packages("readr")
Removing package from ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> install.packages("tidyverse")
also installing the dependencies ‘testthat’, ‘backports’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘isoband’, ‘vctrs’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘broom’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘dplyr’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘haven’, ‘hms’, ‘httr’, ‘modelr’, ‘pillar’, ‘purrr’, ‘readr’, ‘readxl’, ‘reprex’, ‘rlang’, ‘rvest’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’, ‘xml2’
There are binary versions available but the source versions
are later:
binary source needs_compilation
testthat 2.0.1 2.3.2 TRUE
backports 1.1.3 1.1.6 TRUE
isoband 0.1.0 0.2.1 TRUE
vctrs 0.1.0 0.2.4 TRUE
ellipsis 0.1.0 0.3.0 TRUE
broom 0.4.5 0.5.6 FALSE
dbplyr 1.3.0 1.4.3 FALSE
dplyr 0.8.0.1 0.8.5 TRUE
ggplot2 3.1.0 3.3.0 FALSE
haven 2.1.0 2.2.0 TRUE
hms 0.4.2 0.5.3 FALSE
httr 1.4.0 1.4.1 FALSE
modelr 0.1.4 0.1.7 FALSE
pillar 1.3.1 1.4.3 FALSE
purrr 0.3.2 0.3.4 TRUE
reprex 0.2.1 0.3.0 FALSE
rlang 0.3.1 0.4.6 TRUE
rvest 0.3.2 0.3.5 FALSE
tibble 2.1.1 3.0.1 TRUE
tidyr 0.8.3 1.0.2 TRUE
xml2 1.2.0 1.3.2 TRUE
tidyverse 1.2.1 1.3.0 FALSE
Do you want to install from sources the packages which need compilation?
y/n: y
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/readr_1.3.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 593181 bytes (579 KB)
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downloaded 579 KB
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/readxl_1.3.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1503032 bytes (1.4 MB)
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downloaded 1.4 MB
Error in install.packages : cannot remove prior installation of package ‘readr’
> remove.packages("readr")
Removing package from ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)