ggplot2 installation error what i do for ggplot installation

install.packages("ggplot2")
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/Daimkhan/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
ggplot2 3.1.1 3.3.3 FALSE

installing the source package ‘ggplot2’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.3.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3058840 bytes (2.9 MB)
downloaded 2.9 MB

  • installing source package 'ggplot2' ...
    ** package 'ggplot2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    ** R
    ** data
    *** moving datasets to lazyload DB
    ** inst
    ** preparing package for lazy loading
    Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
    there is no package called 'pillar'
    ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ggplot2'
  • removing 'C:/Users/Daimkhan/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/ggplot2'
    In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages :
    running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.4/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\Daimkhan\Documents\R\win-library\3.4" C:\Users\Daimkhan\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpQTx1lT/downloaded_packages/ggplot2_3.3.3.tar.gz' had status 1
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Daimkhan\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpQTx1lT\downloaded_packages’

The error is informing you of a missing dependency, in this case its 'pillar' so you can try to install that.

install.packages("pillar")

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