Problem with rlang version and tidyverse and ggmap

[MercedesRD]

Hello,

since a couple of days, RStudio is not able to load the packages tiduverse and ggmap. I obtain the following error message:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.2 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.5 is required

Although I have tried to restart the R session, update and re-install all three packages. I don't know what to do. I haven't changed anything (as far as I know).

Thanks in advance.

[cderv]

@MercedesRD

namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.2 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.5 is required

You have rlang version 0.4.2 installed and loaded, and that prevent the use of tidyverse that requires 0.4.5 here.

Can you check the rlang version of your installed package ? In the package Pane or using packageVersion("rlang") ?
you can also find where it is installed with find.package("rlang")

@MercedesRD

re-install all three packages

install.packages("rlang") should have updated the package. Did the installation worked ?

[MercedesRD]

Thanks for your quick response.
The installation of rlang did not work:

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning in install.packages :
cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’

The installed version was:
packageVersion("rlang")
[1] ‘0.4.2’
And it is in this R library
find.package("rlang")
[1] "C:/Users/mrom8073/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/rlang"

I deleted the file from the library and installed it again (I am not sure I should do it like that... with the risk of deleting things I shouldn't... but it worked!)

Thank you so much!