Problem loading knitcitations package in R 3.6.3

[Banshee891]

I'm having trouble loading my knitcitations package for R markdown. It keeps giving me the following error message:

> library(knitcitations)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘knitcitations’ in loadNamespace(i, 
c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): there is no package called 
‘stringi’

I've tried to uninstall and reinstall knitcitations as well as use installl.packages("stringi", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/", dependencies=TRUE), however neither of those seem to be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[andresrcs]

@Banshee891

installl.packages("stringi", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/", dependencies=TRUE)

Can you post the complete output message you get when you run this command?

[Banshee891]

Yes, here it what it gives me:

> install.packages("stringi", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/", dependencies=TRUE)
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/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
        binary source needs_compilation
stringi  1.4.6  1.5.3              TRUE

installing the source package ‘stringi’

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/stringi_1.5.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7293930 bytes (7.0 MB)
downloaded 7.0 MB

ERROR: failed to lock directory 'C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.6' for modifying
Try removing 'C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/00LOCK-stringi'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘stringi’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpOoyjmi\downloaded_packages’

It also mentions in the beginning warning that I don't have Rtools installed, which I made sure I did have.

[andresrcs]

@Banshee891

warning that I don't have Rtools installed, which I made sure I did have.

What version of Rtools have you installed? It has to be compatible with your R version.

@Banshee891

ERROR: failed to lock directory 'C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.6' for modifying
Try removing 'C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/00LOCK-stringi'

To solve this part, you just have to follow the instructions and delete that file.

[Banshee891]

The Rtools that I have installed is rtools40-x86_64 (this was on the installer I downloaded).

And then I found and deleted the indicated file described in the instructions you pointed out.

[andresrcs]

RTools40 is for R >= 4.0.0 since you are using R 3.6.3 you have to use Rtools35, you can download it from here

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/history.html

Or, you could update your R version

[Banshee891]

That worked!! Thank you so much! I was able to download the stringi package and load both that and knitcitations correctly. My document is also knitting properly now.

[andresrcs]

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