error: package ‘tidyselect’’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to call library (tidyverse) and getting this error:
there is no package called ‘tidyselect’
When in install "tidyselect" I am getting another issue:
package ‘tidyselect’’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)
Is this true tidyselect not available for R .5 version? Hot to resolve this issue?

sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)

Can you post the whole error message you get when you try to install tidyselect?
This package is available for your R version so there must be another reason for the problem like a connectivity issue maybe.

Sure, Here is the full error message:

install.packages("tidyselect’")
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/admin/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘tidyselect’’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

You need to install Rtools (the .exe file) from this webpage https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/. And then try to run install.pacakages("tidyselect") again.

Actually, for your R version you need to install RTools35 from this link

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/history.html

After installing RTools35 I am still encountering the error and reinstalling tidyselect did not work.

find_rtools()
[1] TRUE
find.package("devtools")
[1] "C:/Users/admin/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/devtools"
library(tidyverse)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘tidyselect’
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘tidyverse’ was built under R version 3.5.3
install.packages("tidyselect")
Error in install.packages : Updating loaded packages

Restarting R session...

Loading required package: DESeq2
Loading required package: S4Vectors
Loading required package: stats4
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: ‘BiocGenerics’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:parallel’:

clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ, clusterExport, clusterMap,
parApply, parCapply, parLapply, parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colMeans, colnames, colSums, dirname,
do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, Filter, Find, get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted,
lapply, lengths, Map, mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int,
Position, rank, rbind, Reduce, rowMeans, rownames, rowSums, sapply, setdiff, sort, table,
tapply, union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min

Attaching package: ‘S4Vectors’

The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:

expand.grid

Loading required package: IRanges

Attaching package: ‘IRanges’

The following object is masked from ‘package:grDevices’:

windows

Loading required package: GenomicRanges
Loading required package: GenomeInfoDb
Loading required package: SummarizedExperiment
Loading required package: Biobase
Welcome to Bioconductor

Vignettes contain introductory material; view with 'browseVignettes()'. To cite
Bioconductor, see 'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

Loading required package: DelayedArray
Loading required package: matrixStats

Attaching package: ‘matrixStats’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:Biobase’:

anyMissing, rowMedians

Loading required package: BiocParallel

Attaching package: ‘DelayedArray’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:matrixStats’:

colMaxs, colMins, colRanges, rowMaxs, rowMins, rowRanges

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

aperm, apply

library(tidyverse)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘tidyselect’
In addition: There were 12 warnings (use warnings() to see them)

warnings()
Warning messages:
1: package ‘DESeq2’ was built under R version 3.5.2
2: package ‘S4Vectors’ was built under R version 3.5.1
3: package ‘BiocGenerics’ was built under R version 3.5.1
4: package ‘IRanges’ was built under R version 3.5.1
5: package ‘GenomicRanges’ was built under R version 3.5.1
6: package ‘GenomeInfoDb’ was built under R version 3.5.2
7: package ‘SummarizedExperiment’ was built under R version 3.5.1
8: package ‘Biobase’ was built under R version 3.5.1
9: package ‘DelayedArray’ was built under R version 3.5.1
10: package ‘matrixStats’ was built under R version 3.5.3
11: package ‘BiocParallel’ was built under R version 3.5.2
12: package ‘tidyverse’ was built under R version 3.5.3

I see at point 12 package ‘tidyverse’ but I still have this error.

library(tidyverse)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘tidyselect’
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘tidyverse’ was built under R version 3.5.3

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