ggplot2 installation issues

[goodandearly]

I am having difficulties installing ggplot2. I have tried the following:

• running Rx64 (3.6.3) as administrator
• specifying the library location
• installing rlang
• including dependencies
• uninstalling and reinstalling R and R-Studio

Below is the script that appears after attempting installation.

install.packages('ggplot2')
Installing package into ‘\syrcl-svr/Users/tylerg/My Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
ggplot2 3.2.1 3.3.0 FALSE

installing the source package ‘ggplot2’

trying URL 'https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3031461 bytes (2.9 MB)
downloaded 2.9 MB

'\syrcl-svr\Users\tylerg\My Documents\R\Loney'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

• installing source package 'ggplot2' ...
  ** package 'ggplot2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** data
  *** moving datasets to lazyload DB
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) :
  there is no package called 'ggplot2'
  Calls: -> findpack
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ggplot2'
• removing '\syrcl-svr/Users/tylerg/My Documents/R/win-library/3.6/ggplot2'
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

[andresrcs]

@goodandearly

'\syrcl-svr\Users\tylerg\My Documents\R\Loney'

Very often R has troubles installing packages on network drives, I would recommend you to use a local drive instead for your package library, that would save you a lot of headaches.

[goodandearly]

Oh yes, I tried specifying a local library, but it says that all other folders are unwriteable.

[andresrcs]

If I was you, I would contact my IT department and asks them to give me write permissions on a local path for my package library.

[goodandearly]

This worked. Thank you!

[andresrcs]

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