Hi, having a similar problem to this: https://forum.posit.co/t/installation-of-tidyverse-does-not-finish-and-r-studio-is-very-slow/23253
> install.packages("tidyverse")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/ereilly007/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘tinytex’, ‘BH’, ‘plogr’, ‘DBI’, ‘gtable’, ‘lazyeval’, ‘scales’, ‘viridisLite’, ‘withr’, ‘curl’, ‘mime’, ‘openssl’, ‘clipr’, ‘progress’, ‘callr’, ‘fs’, ‘rmarkdown’, ‘whisker’, ‘selectr’, ‘stringi’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘broom’, ‘dplyr’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘forcats’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘haven’, ‘httr’, ‘jsonlite’, ‘lubridate’, ‘modelr’, ‘purrr’, ‘readr’, ‘readxl’, ‘reprex’, ‘rstudioapi’, ‘rvest’, ‘stringr’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’, ‘xml2’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
tinytex 0.15 0.16 FALSE
curl 4.0 4.1 TRUE
Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/BH_1.69.0-1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/plogr_0.2.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/DBI_1.0.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/gtable_0.3.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/lazyeval_0.2.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/scales_1.0.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/viridisLite_0.3.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/withr_2.1.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/curl_4.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/mime_0.7.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/openssl_1.4.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/clipr_0.7.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/progress_1.2.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/callr_3.3.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/fs_1.3.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rmarkdown_1.15.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/whisker_0.4.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/selectr_0.4-1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/stringi_1.4.3.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/lifecycle_0.1.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/broom_0.5.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/dplyr_0.8.3.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/dbplyr_1.4.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/forcats_0.4.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/ggplot2_3.2.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/haven_2.1.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/httr_1.4.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/jsonlite_1.6.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/lubridate_1.7.4.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/modelr_0.1.5.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/purrr_0.3.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/readr_1.3.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/readxl_1.3.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/reprex_0.3.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rstudioapi_0.10.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rvest_0.3.4.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/stringr_1.4.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/tibble_2.1.3.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/tidyr_1.0.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/xml2_1.2.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/tidyverse_1.2.1.zip'
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The solution in the link seems to be to set R Home directory to a local drive but I already have my working directory as the C: drive.
I'm using R version 3.6.1 and RStudio version 1.1335.
I'm pretty new to this so not sure if any more info is needed, hope someone can help!
Thanks!