helping with installation of tidyverse package

[amber]

Hello, I have met an installation problem related to tidyverse packages

when I use

install.packages("tidyverse")

I got success messages

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/amber/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/tidyverse_1.3.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 440077 bytes (429 KB)
downloaded 429 KB

package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\Users\amber\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpqyXTol\downloaded_packages

then I try to use

library(tidyverse)

I received

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 ‘vctrs’

I thought the mean reason is vctrs packages, So I tried to install it

install.packages("vctrs")

but the result is

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/amber/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/vctrs_0.3.4.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
 cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/vctrs_0.3.4.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 
 cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/vctrs_0.3.4.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
 download of package ‘vctrs’ failed

I have checked the website https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0 do not have vctrs package
I wonder what should I do?

[pieterjanvc]

Hi,

I tried to (re)install the package too and discovered it's indeed unavailable. If you look at the CRAN website for the package you can see it says r-release: not available. I think this is an error, but I'm not sure.

I suggest you install the developer version from GitHub meanwhile and hopefully this fixes your issue:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/vctrs")

PJ

PS: I opened an issue on the GitHub page to let them know

[laurardguezmrtn]

Hello!
I have the same issue today with other packages (it doesn't only affect tidyverse but a lot more).
I have tried to install the developer version from GitHub but I get another error, see error below:

devtools::install_github("r-lib/vctrs")
Downloading GitHub repo r-lib/vctrs@HEAD
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\rodrigul\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpQfEc5N\remotes20385ac38e7\r-lib-vctrs-006af2e/DESCRIPTION' ...

• preparing 'vctrs': (2.7s)
  √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
• cleaning src
• installing the package to process help pages (661ms)
  -----------------------------------
• installing source package 'vctrs' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** libs
  "c:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/"gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/include" -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall -std=gnu99 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign -c altrep-rle.c -o altrep-rle.o
  sh: c:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
  make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf:222: altrep-rle.o] Error 127
  ERROR: compilation failed for package 'vctrs'
• removing 'C:/Users/rodrigul/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpWEbs1x/Rinstc58218f1365/vctrs'
  -----------------------------------
  ERROR: package installation failed
  Error: Failed to install 'vctrs' from GitHub:
  System command 'Rcmd.exe' failed, exit status: 1, stdout + stderr (last 10 lines):
  E> * installing source package 'vctrs' ...
  E> ** using staged installation
  E> ** libs
  E> "c:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/"gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/include" -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall -std=gnu99 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign -c altrep-rle.c -o altrep-rle.o
  E> sh: c:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
  E> make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf:222: altrep-rle.o] Error 127
  E> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'vctrs'
  E> * removing 'C:/Users/rodrigul/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpWEbs1x/Rinstc58218f1365/vctrs'
  E> -----------------------------------
  E> ERROR: package installation failed

Thanks for your help!

[cderv]

The windows binary does not seem available on CRAN indeed.

In the meantime, you can install from source.
You must install Rtools for that: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ (you may get the issue about github installation for that if you don't have rtools)

install.packages("vctrs", type = "source")

Or maybe easier: You can install from package manager

install.packages("vctrs", repos = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/latest")

it seems they have the binary available there.

[laurardguezmrtn]

@cderv

install.packages("vctrs", repos = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/latest")

Thank you so much, it seems to work!

[amber]

Hello,

Thanks very much for your help. I tried

install.packages("vctrs", repos = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/latest")

as people suggested on Github. Now it's been solved.
thanks for your help!

[amber]

Hello,
I am new to the R, but if you have the problem of installing vctrs package, you may try the solution

install.packages("vctrs", repos = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/latest")

as suggested on Github and by cderv.
It works for me.