install ggplot2 error

install.packages('ggplot2')

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://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3031461 bytes (2.9 MB)
downloaded 2.9 MB

  • 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
    ** help
    *** installing help indices
    converting help for package 'ggplot2'
    finding HTML links ... done
    absoluteGrob html
    add_theme html
    aes html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/aes.Rd:35: file link 'quotation' in package 'rlang' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/aes.Rd:39: file link 'quasiquotation' in package 'rlang' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    aes_ html
    aes_all html
    aes_auto html
    aes_colour_fill_alpha html
    aes_eval html
    aes_group_order html
    aes_linetype_size_shape html
    aes_position html
    annotate html
    annotation_custom html
    annotation_logticks html
    annotation_map html
    annotation_raster html
    as.list.ggproto html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/as.list.ggproto.Rd:16: file link 'as.list.environment' in package 'base' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    as_labeller html
    autolayer html
    autoplot html
    benchplot html
    bidirection html
    binned_scale html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/binned_scale.Rd:51: file link 'extended_breaks' in package 'scales' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    borders html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/borders.Rd:34: file link 'pathGrob' in package 'grid' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    calc_element html
    combine_vars html
    continuous_scale html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/continuous_scale.Rd:49: file link 'extended_breaks' in package 'scales' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    coord_cartesian html
    coord_fixed html
    coord_flip html
    coord_map html
    coord_munch html
    coord_polar html
    coord_trans html
    cut_interval html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/cut_interval.Rd:30: file link 'cut.default' in package 'base' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    diamonds html
    discrete_scale html
    draw_key html
    economics html
    element html
    element_grob html
    element_render html
    expand_limits html
    expansion html
    facet_grid html
    facet_null html
    facet_wrap html
    faithfuld html
    find_panel html
    fortify-multcomp html
    fortify html
    fortify.lm html
    fortify.map html
    fortify.sp html
    geom_abline html
    geom_bar html
    geom_bin2d html
    geom_blank html
    geom_boxplot html
    geom_contour html
    geom_count html
    geom_density html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/geom_density.Rd:96: file link 'bw.nrd' in package 'stats' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    geom_density_2d html
    geom_dotplot html
    geom_errorbarh html
    geom_hex html
    geom_histogram html
    geom_jitter html
    geom_linerange html
    geom_map html
    geom_path html
    geom_point html
    geom_polygon html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/geom_polygon.Rd:48: file link 'pathGrob' in package 'grid' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    geom_qq html
    geom_quantile html
    geom_ribbon html
    geom_rug html
    geom_segment html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/geom_segment.Rd:111: file link 'curveGrob' in package 'grid' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    geom_smooth html
    geom_spoke html
    geom_text html
    geom_tile html
    geom_violin html
    Rd warning: C:/Users/sonya/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpADmuiE/R.INSTALLe7025793b5f/ggplot2/man/geom_violin.Rd:104: file link 'bw.nrd' in package 'stats' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic
    gg-add html
    gg_dep html
    ggplot html
    ggplot2-ggproto html
    finding level-2 HTML links ...
    Error: error reading from connection
  • removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.2/library/ggplot2'
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\sonya\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpqe1WF5\downloaded_packages’

install.packages('rlang')
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rlang_0.4.5.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1129637 bytes (1.1 MB)
downloaded 1.1 MB

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\sonya\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpqe1WF5\downloaded_packages

Hi @sonyab, have you tried running this?

install.packages('tidyverse', type = 'win.binary')

Thank you! yes that worked

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