Struggling with "rlang" during "tidyverse" package installation

[PaulinaB]

Hi, I am new to RStudio. I am trying to install some packages. In many of them I got this error (see below). I have already tried to update, uninstall and install rlang, restart R studio, but nothing worked. Could you please recommend any ideas what to do?
Thank you

Example:

install.packages("tidyverse")

Asnwer:
Installing package into ‘..R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘vctrs’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘broom’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘dplyr’, ‘dtplyr’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘googledrive’, ‘googlesheets4’, ‘haven’, ‘hms’, ‘modelr’, ‘pillar’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’

• installing source package ‘vctrs’ ...
  ** package ‘vctrs’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** libs
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rlang', details:
  call: NULL
  error: 'is_character' is not an exported object from 'namespace:rlang'
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘vctrs’
• removing ‘../R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/vctrs’
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘vctrs’ had non-zero exit status

[andresrcs]

@PaulinaB

Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rlang', details:
call: NULL

It seems there is a problem with the latest rlang version, a walk-around is to install a precompiled binary from the public RStudio Package Manager (if you are using a compatible Linux distribution)

https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/repos/1/overview

If you need more specific help with this, please tell us exactly what Linux distribution and release you are using in your system.

[bsharmac]

Hi,
I hd same issue just two days ago. I removed R and again restall it and it worked. Before that I tried removing rland and re-installing it but it didn't work.