Problem in installing Tidyverse

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#1

Hi all,

I have been trying to install tidyverse with this line with R studio in Window:

install.packages("tidyverse")

However I keep getting the long error message below. I can see tidyverse source packages was downloaded to D drive of my temp folder but it can never be loaded into my R studio. Just wondering if anyone can help? Thanks.

'\home_drives\tam001v'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.
ERROR: dependencies 'broom', 'dbplyr', 'dtplyr', 'forcats', 'googledrive', 'googlesheets4', 'ggplot2', 'hms', 'httr', 'modelr', 'pillar', 'reprex', 'rstudioapi', 'rvest' are not available for package 'tidyverse'

  • removing '\home_drives/tam001v/R/win-library/3.5/tidyverse'
    In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status
#2

It seems you have set your package library into a network folder, R has problems with network drives, you could try mapping the folder as a local unit or set your package library in a local folder.

#3

Thanks for your help Andres. I set the package library in a local folder (‘D:/Users/tam001v/Downloads/R lib’) but I am getting an error message with the tidyverse folder getting removed at the end.

Do I need to remove the network drive path thoroughly in .libPaths() despite it is not the first path on list?

.libPaths()
[1] "D:/Users/tam001v/Downloads/R lib"
[2] "\\home_drives/tam001v/R/win-library/3.5"
[3] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.5.1/library"

Error message with tidyverse:

'\home_drives\tam001v'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.
ERROR: dependencies 'callr', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown' are not available for package 'reprex'

  • removing 'D:/Users/tam001v/Downloads/R lib/reprex'
    In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘reprex’ had non-zero exit status
    '\home_drives\tam001v'
    CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
    UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.
    ERROR: dependencies 'broom', 'dbplyr', 'dtplyr', 'googledrive', 'googlesheets4', 'ggplot2', 'hms', 'modelr', 'pillar', 'reprex', 'rvest' are not available for package 'tidyverse'
  • removing 'D:/Users/tam001v/Downloads/R lib/tidyverse'
    In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status
#4

This suggests you have to set your current working directory in a local folder as well, at least for the installation process.

A possible work around would be to update your R version, that way you could get access to precompiled binaries that are easier to install.

#5

Thanks Andres. I have updated R to 1.3.1093 (as I am using Window 7) and changed the working and library to a local folder. Then I get a different error message as below...

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  • installing source package 'tinytex' ...
    ** package 'tinytex' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    ** R
    ** inst
    ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
    Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
    namespace 'xfun' 0.13 is being loaded, but >= 0.23 is required
    ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'tinytex'
  • removing 'D:/Users/tam001v/RStudio/lib/tinytex'
    In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘tinytex’ had non-zero exit status
#6

Just to clarify, that is your RStudio version, is not the same as your R version, latest R version is 4.1.0 and it can be installed in windows 7.

About the error message, this is asking you to update the xfun package.

install.packages("xfun")
#7

Ah in that case there are quite a few packages I need to update before installing tidyverse packages again. I will see how it goes. Thanks for your help!