Error while installing "car" library. Same error for "textdata"

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This has usually not been an issue but when I restarted my computer and loaded my libraries I gor the following error. Please help!

library(car)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘vctrs’ 0.2.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.2.1 is required
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘car’ was built under R version 3.6.3

library(textdata)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘textdata’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘vctrs’ 0.2.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.2.1 is required
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘textdata’ was built under R version 3.6.3

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You are been asked to update vctrs package

install.packages("vctrs")
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Thank you!! I did that and now get the following error. Could you please advice me here?

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘textdata’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.5 is required
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘textdata’ was built under R version 3.6.3

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Same problem, different package, update the required packages as needed.

install.packages("rlang")
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Same problem here. I have re-installed R, deleted car and re-installed it, used install.packages("rlang"), followed with library(car), and get the same error:

library(car)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.5 is required

I am using R 3.6.3.

Is this required for car functions to work? I had the same error when I tried to run a correlation plot (ggpairs), so rlang must work in ggplot2 as well.

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What message output do you get when you try to install rlang? If you keep getting asked to update rlang then you haven't properly updated it.

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How do you update it separately from re-installing R (now 3.6.3)? I removed all previous versions of R, downloaded the newest one (3.6.3), then installed the package car (install.packages ("car")).
The error message popped up again: > library(car)

Loading required package: carData
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):

namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.5 is required
I have gone into the temp files and can see rlang 0.4.5, so obviously it has been loaded
Any thoughts are welcome! I have wasted an entire day and night on this, when there is probably some easy fix. Thanks in advance.

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Your package library is independent from your R installation. Try to install rlang again and post here the whole message output you get.

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