Error loading blob package

The issue here is the space in your user account not with Program Files - this is where it splits, in the download path.

Related question with this indeed know issue. It has been solved for the user there:

You can also try remotes::install_cran to see if it uses the same mechanism and error the same.

Here is a blog post about this issue:

This is a known issue with users that have space in the account name. not good for R.

Changing the temp folder to point to a path with no space in it can help with that as it is where the packages files are downloaded. see ?tempdir help page to see how to do it.

Hope it helps.

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