Problems after installation with library packages 'psych', 'hmisc' and 'mice' function in RStudio

General
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Dear R Community,
after installation of RStudio 3.6.1 and the list of packages of my script on a new computer I received error message for packages Hmisc, mice and psych (see below). Anyone ideas what happened and how I can resolve the problem(s)? I would be very grateful!

library(psych)
Error in library(psych) : es gibt kein Paket namens ‘psych’
library(Hmisc)
Error in library(Hmisc) : es gibt kein Paket namens ‘Hmisc’
library(mice)
Paket �mice� wurde unter R Version 3.6.3 erstelltError: package or namespace load failed for ‘mice’:
.onLoad in loadNamespace() für 'broom' fehlgeschlagen, Details:
Aufruf: loadNamespace(name)
Fehler: es gibt kein Paket namens ‘backports’

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You are missing the backports package and non of the other packages have been successfully installed, try installing backports first and then try to install the other packages again.

install.packages("backports")
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Thank you very much for your fast help, unfortunately it did not yet resolve the problem.

  1. After installation of the package "backports" I received the following message for the package "psych":

install.packages("psych")

Installing package into �C:/Users/EdlerJ/Documents/R/win-library/3.6�

(as �lib� is unspecified)

Warning in install.packages :

dependency ‘mnormt’ is not available

There is a binary version available but the source version is later:

installing the source package �psych�

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/psych_2.0.7.tar.gz'

Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1743492 bytes (1.7 MB)

downloaded 1.7 MB

ERROR: dependency 'mnormt' is not available for package 'psych'

  • removing 'C:/Users/EdlerJ/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/psych'

Warning in install.packages :

installation of package ‘psych’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in

‘C:\Users\EdlerJ\AppData\Local\Temp\1\RtmpGmyzQm\downloaded_packages’

  1. For "hmisc" I was asked "Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation?" and I clicked "No". After installation the library function lead the following error message:

library(Hmisc)

Paket �Hmisc� wurde unter R Version 3.6.3 erstelltError: package or namespace load failed for ‘Hmisc’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):

es gibt kein Paket namens ‘acepack’

  1. Package mice seems to have worked.
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Following the same logic, just keep installing the missing packages until you get no complains.

install.packages("mnormt")