Installing package microbiomeutilities

[chiarad]

Hey, I am new to R. I am a student working on a microbiome project and using a script provided by my supervisor.
I need to install the microbiomeutilities package. I've been trying for quite some time but haven't been successful so far. I think the first issue was that I didn't have the microbiome package installed.
This is the error message I got: ERROR: dependency 'microbiome' is not available for package 'microbiomeutilities'. Based on this I thought that maybe installing that would solve my issue.

However, I got a new error message:

Error: package or namespace load failed for 'microbiome' in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
namespace 'vctrs' 0.5.0 is already loaded, but >= 0.5.2 is required
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'microbiomeutilities'

• removing 'C:/Users/c/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2/microbiomeutilities'
  Warning message:
  In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/c/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpuu1kD2/file60022ec7d76/microbiomeutilities_1.00.17.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

I would love some help on this as I'm really inexperienced and don't want to bother my supervisors with minor issues.
Thank you!

[jrkrideau]

Hi welcome to the Forum.

Your immediate problem is that your {vctrs} package is outdated and R cannot install a new version while 'vctrs` is loaded.

Restart **R ** and RStudio and do

 install.packages("vctrs") 

and retry the installation

[chiarad]

Oh thank you! It finally worked. I tried to update vctrs through updates under packages earlier but that didn't work. Now it finally did. Thank you a lot!!