Unable to install tidyverse package for R version 3.5

[DrVince]

library(tidyverse)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’:
.onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'tidyverse', details:
call: cli::rule(left = crayon::bold("Attaching packages"), right = paste0("tidyverse ",
error: lazy-load database 'C:/Users/r/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/assertthat/R/assertthat.rdb' is corrupt
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In cli::rule(left = crayon::bold("Attaching packages"), right = paste0("tidyverse ", :
restarting interrupted promise evaluation
2: In cli::rule(left = crayon::bold("Attaching packages"), right = paste0("tidyverse ", :
internal error -3 in R_decompress1

[technocrat]

The key in the error message is C:/Users/r/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/assertthat/R/assertthat.rdb Try a fresh install:

install.packages("asserthat")

and make sure your R installation is reasonably current (>=3.5.0)

[DrVince]

@technocrat

install.packages("asserthat")

Thank you, I tried > install.packages("assertthat"), re-installed tidyverse and had to re-install nlme; re-installed tidyverse again and get the following:

library(tidyverse)
-- Attaching packages --------------------------------------- tidyverse 1.2.1 --
v tibble 2.1.1 v purrr 0.3.2
v tidyr 0.8.3 v stringr 1.4.0
v readr 1.3.1 v forcats 0.4.0
-- Conflicts ------------------------------------------ tidyverse_conflicts() --
x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
x dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()

Is this correct? I haven't seen this before on library()
Thanks again

[mara]

@DrVince

Is this correct? I haven't seen this before on library()
Thanks again

Yes. This is just a startup message showing you which versions of packages you have installed, and, like every package that has conflicts with built-in packages (base, stats), those show up as well.

So, in summary, you're good to go.

[DrVince]

Thank you! Much appreciated; yes it's working

[technocrat]

@mara is, of course right. If you are doing rmarkdown (Rmd), you can prevent these from showing up, by

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(tidyverse))

[DrVince]

Wow! I've learned so much in such a short time; much obliged!
This must be so trivial for you folks, thank you for your time.

[technocrat]

Glad it's working. Some thing get trivial with time, but you'd be surprised how much you can learn trying to come up with a comprehensible answer to what at first seems like a trivial question. So, thanks for asking!