Thanks all for your reply's
cderv - In my organisation all software is packaged and deployed in a controlled environment. I need to download each package and install it on a proof of concept PC before handing them over to the Desktop team to package. End users do not have the rights to install packages themselves on the live environment. So I'm unable to use install.packages as I wont be able to capture the additional packages it installs, instead I have to manually download and install each dependant package.
I have tried with the 3.3 version of the VIM package but still no luck, this is the error I see as before:
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) : allocation failure in R_setPrimitiveArgTypes
The same applies to rlang:
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
unable to load shared object 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.2/library/rlang/libs/i386/rlang.dll':
LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.
Any further assistance would be gratefully received.
Thanks you