Library problems installing bibliometrix

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#1

Hi folks,

since I am new to this community I wanted to say thank you in advance. Unfortunately I have a problem regarding the installation of the bibliometrix package. It should be super easy but obviously not for me.

First of all some sessionInfo()

R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.2.3

Matrix products: default
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.0 tools_4.1.0

So I tried using "install.packages('bibliometrix', dependencies = TRUE)" to install al the necessary stuff. Unfortunately when trying to use it with "library(bibliometrix)" it says:

Error: Loading package or namespace for 'bibliometrix' in readRDS(mapfile): failed.
 unknown input format

What did I already do:

  • Uninstall R
  • Uninstall R Studio
  • Reinstall both
  • Remove pkgs manually
  • Removed 'bibliometrix'
  • Reinstalled 'bibliometrix'

But, as you might guess, without success. I really hope one of you has a good idea about this and the provided information is enough.

Thanks a lot.

#2

I guess the best thing would to try a re-install and paste the output here. The most likely thing is probably a dependency that did not install. You may need to carefully check all the output looking for error messages saying, roughly *package XXX" did not install.

Ah that should be ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘sf’* etc.

Install the first "uninstalled" package, try a re-install of 'bibliometrix'. Repeat if needed. I have see cases where 3 or 4 dependenries do not automatically install.

#3

Thanks for the quick reply. I removed the bibliometrix package and got the following output. For me this feels like there seems to be a library problem that I can't fix.

> detach("package:bibliometrix", unload = TRUE)
error in detach("package:bibliometrix", unload = TRUE) : 
  invalid 'name' argument
> remove.packages("bibliometrix")
Remove package from '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library'
(since 'lib' is not specified)

This might not be directly connected to bibliometrix but seems to be a R library problem.

#4

I think it is because you do not have bibliometrix installed. You cannot attach, detach or remove a package that is not installed. I still think it is likely to be a dependent package that is not installing but we need the complete installation log to check and IIRC it will be huge.

#5

I fully removed R from my Mac (at least I hope so) and did a reinstall of bibliometrix with the following output:

> install.packages('bibliometrix', dependencies = TRUE)
installiere auch Abhängigkeit ‘bibliometrixData’

versuche URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/bibliometrixData_0.1.0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2953867 bytes (2.8 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 2.8 MB

versuche URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/bibliometrix_3.1.4.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 890239 bytes (869 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 869 KB

Tbh I dont know how do uninstall something if R Studio says that it is technically not there. Maybe you can give me the command to type in? That would be great since I am a pretty new to all of this. Thanks in advance.

#6

I am a Linux user so not much help. Sorry for the late reply.

#7

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