Error on using install.packages command!

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Hi, I have been trying to install packages in R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) like "dplyr" and "readxl".
Command :install.packages("dplyr")
Observation: I can see the download happening with some warning messages in the console video as given below.

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/dplyr_0.8.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 3266314 bytes (3.1 MB)
downloaded 3.1 MB

package ‘purrr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in install.packages : ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘E:\R-3.6.1\library’ for modifying
Try removing ‘E:\R-3.6.1\library/00LOCK’

Next when I call the library function another error pops up as shown below:
library(dplyr)
Error in library(dplyr) : there is no package called ‘dplyr’.

Tried installing packages using Install Packages window, same error repeats.

PS: This did not happen during installing readr packages.

Thank you in advance for your valuable comments.

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The error message is self explanatory, have you tried following its advice and deleting the LOCK file?

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Hi
Thank you so much. I started using R since last Friday. Still getting used it.
Back on track.
Cheers.

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