Struggle loading tidyverse: this error occurs

I'm very confused as to why I'm getting this error code... when I go to use ggplot it says it can't find the function but I think this is down to the tidyverse error:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
namespace ‘lifecycle’ 1.0.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.1 is required
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘tidyverse’ was built under R version 4.0.5

This is asking you to update the lifecycle package

install.packages("lifecycle")

Do you get any error message while doing so?

Thanks for your reply... I think I made it worse.
I used the code:

remove.packages("tidyverse")

In hopes I could reinstall it but I tried and it just keeps giving an error saying there isn't a package called tidyverse.
I tried the code you suggested just before doing the above and it didn't change anything.

This is the complete code and error I'm getting when trying to download the tidyverse:

 install.packages("tidyverse", dependancies=T)
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/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘broom’, ‘dtplyr’


  There are binary versions available but the
  source versions are later:
          binary source needs_compilation
broom      0.8.0  1.0.1             FALSE
dtplyr     1.2.1  1.2.2             FALSE
tidyverse  1.3.1  1.3.2             FALSE

installing the source packages ‘broom’, ‘dtplyr’, ‘tidyverse’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/broom_1.0.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 642253 bytes (627 KB)
downloaded 627 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/dtplyr_1.2.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 297692 bytes (290 KB)
downloaded 290 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/tidyverse_1.3.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 702514 bytes (686 KB)
downloaded 686 KB

* installing *source* package 'broom' ...
** package 'broom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  namespace 'lifecycle' 1.0.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.1 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'broom'
* removing 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/broom'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/broom'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘broom’ had non-zero exit status
* installing *source* package 'dtplyr' ...
** package 'dtplyr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  namespace 'lifecycle' 1.0.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.1 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'dtplyr'
* removing 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/dtplyr'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/dtplyr'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘dtplyr’ had non-zero exit status
* installing *source* package 'tidyverse' ...
** package 'tidyverse' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  namespace 'broom' 0.7.6 is being loaded, but >= 0.7.10 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'tidyverse'
* removing 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/tidyverse'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘C:\Users\hbare\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsR5MEH\downloaded_packages’
> library(tidyverse)
Error in library(tidyverse) : there is no package called ‘tidyverse’
> 

I'm so confused and I'm very new to this. Any help would be very appreciated

It is still the same problem, you need to update lifecycle first, please post the complete console output you get when you run this command

install.packages("lifecycle")

Thank you! This is the console output:

> install.packages("lifecycle")
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/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘cli’, ‘rlang’


  There are binary versions available but the
  source versions are later:
          binary source needs_compilation
cli        3.2.0  3.4.1              TRUE
rlang      1.0.2  1.0.6              TRUE
lifecycle  1.0.1  1.0.3             FALSE

  Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/cli_3.2.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1255499 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/rlang_1.0.2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1718546 bytes (1.6 MB)
downloaded 1.6 MB

package ‘cli’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\Users\hbare\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsR5MEH\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘lifecycle’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/lifecycle_1.0.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 106854 bytes (104 KB)
downloaded 104 KB

* installing *source* package 'lifecycle' ...
** package 'lifecycle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : 
  namespace 'rlang' 1.0.2 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.6 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... withCallingHandlers -> loadNamespace -> namespaceImport -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'lifecycle'
* removing 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/lifecycle'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/hbare/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/lifecycle'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘lifecycle’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘C:\Users\hbare\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsR5MEH\downloaded_packages’
> 

Ok, the problem is that lifecycle requires a newer version of rlang but it is only available as source code that requires compilation. You can either install RTools40 in your system so you can compile packages from source or update your R version so you can get access to precompiled binaries of the latest package versions.

Hey dude I had this too.

My recommendation (as a user too, not an employee) is to uninstall R and reinstall the latest version, and also Rtools.

I thought I was using the newest version of R though. When it checks for updates, it says it's up to date.

How do I go about doing RTools?

The latest R version is 4.2.1, you can download it from here

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/

About RTools, it is a complementary software that allows you to compile packages from source, you can download it from here

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

Have in mind that the R and RTools versions you choose must be compatible.

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