ggplot2 package loading and activating issue

[Aquib]

install.packages("ggplot2")
library(ggplot2)

Getting below error when i try to activate ggplot2 package

library(ggplot2)
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :
there is no package called ‘colorspace’
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’

[mara]

Try installing colorspace separately.

install.packages("colorspace")

and then see what happens.

Also, unless this works for you in R but not in (see FAQ below for disambiguation), I don't think it's IDE-related. So, I'm going to move this out of the IDE category and into General.

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

[Aquib]

Thank you.
Now able to activate the package after installing "colorspace" package.

[mara]

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Thanks

[AbeP]

Looks like this is an issue for which the solution was already given.
I had similar issues recently.
The solution that worked for me, was the same as the one that was suggested already: to re-install any "missing" package individually. I had to re-install two "missing" packages one after the other.