Missing dependencies in reinstall of rstudio + r with tidyverse

[abeham]

I had performed a fresh install of R and RStudio after deinstalling a previous version. I follow some of the commands given in the "R for data science" open book. I installed tidyverse and after that some other packages recommended by the author (various datasets) install.packages(c("nycflights13", "gapminder", "Lahman")). The installation of the packages worked without problems, but several dependencies were missing.

So here I am installing it:

choco install r.project r.studio -y

Then I opened RStudio and installed tidyverse

install.packages("tidyverse")
# lots of output skipped
package ‘sys’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘askpass’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘assertthat’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘mime’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘cli’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘crayon’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘httr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘jsonlite’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘magrittr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rstudioapi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘stringr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘xml2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\somepath\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘R6’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/R6_2.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 31545 bytes (30 KB)
downloaded 30 KB

* installing *source* package 'R6' ...
** Paket 'R6' erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  converting help for package 'R6'
    finding HTML links ... fertig
    R6Class                                 html  
    as.list.R6                              html  
    is.R6                                   html  
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x64
* DONE (R6)
In R CMD INSTALL

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘C:\somepath\downloaded_packages’

And tried to load it

library(tidyverse)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’:
 .onLoad in loadNamespace() für 'broom' fehlgeschlagen, Details:
  Aufruf: loadNamespace(name)
  Fehler: es gibt kein Paket namens ‘backports’

So I installed backports (successfully), then:

library(tidyverse)
-- Attaching packages --------------------------------------- tidyverse 1.2.1 --
v ggplot2 3.0.0     v purrr   0.3.0
v tibble  1.4.2     v dplyr   0.7.8
v tidyr   0.8.2     v stringr 1.4.0
v readr   1.3.1     v forcats 0.3.0
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’:
 .onAttach in attachNamespace() für 'tidyverse' fehlgeschlagen, Details:
  Aufruf: NULL
  Fehler: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’:
 .onAttach in attachNamespace() für 'ggplot2' fehlgeschlagen, Details:
  Aufruf: loadNamespace(name)
  Fehler: es gibt kein Paket namens ‘withr’

So after intalling "withr" it worked and tidyverse could be loaded. But then after performing

ggplot(mpg) + geom_point(aes(x = displ, y = hwy, color = class))
Error in loadNamespace(name) : es gibt kein Paket namens ‘digest’

Dependency "digest" was missing.

Is there a problem with the package or is this my system only?

[mara]

It sounds like you've somehow gotten a partial install (or, it's possible that something went wrong and is in your installation messages, but we can't see it because it's been cropped). You could try reinstalling using :

install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE)

[abeham]

@mara

otten a partial install (or, it's possible that something went wrong and is in your installation messages, but we can't see it because it's been c

Thank you, I did that. It downloaded some more packages

package ‘evaluate’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘highr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘markdown’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘feather’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘knitr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

Maybe, it's because I had R 3.5.0 installed before and it didn't clean the R/win-library where the packages were downloaded, thus having some sort of "partial install" as you say?