If this happens again in the future, you might try the development
version of pak:
install.packages("pak", repos = "https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/dev/";)
pak::pak("tidyverse")
pak automatically diagnoses a number of common problems that causes
install.packages() to fail.
Hadley
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 4:51 PM Larry Johnson
<larry.john...@cobbcountycourier.com> wrote:
>
> It was pointed out to me by Jeff Newmiller that I should have been hitting
> "reply all" so that others could see the thread and make comment,
> corrections, or benefit from any solution.
>
> So, I'm going to summarize the end result.
>
> Duncan Murdoch walked me through some diagnostic steps, and what ultimately
> worked was to run
>
> remove.packages("broom")
> install.packages("broom")
>
> and then repeat that for each of the four packages that attempts to load
> tidyverse indicated had dependency issues (I know that last sentence was
> ungrammatical, but you probably get my drift).
>
> I'd still like to know why updating packages in bulk isn't working for me,
> but I can move ahead for now, and I'll figure out how to fix that later.
>
> So thanks Duncan.
>
>
> Larry Johnson
>
> Editor and Publisher
>
> Cobb County Courier
>
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>
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 12:41 PM
> To: Larry Johnson <larry.john...@cobbcountycourier.com>; r-help@r-project.org
> <r-help@r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to
> install or update packages
>
> On 25/04/2021 10:52 a.m., Larry Johnson wrote:
> > Hi. Short version. tidyverse disappeared from my packages, and won't
> > install. The initial failure stated I had an outdated broom package, but
> > updates are failing too, not just on broom, but on all packages, and there
> > is no meaningful error output on the installation failures.
> >
> > I typically use RStudio on Fedora 33, but the problem I'm about to describe
> > occurs whether I use RStudio or the text version.
> >
> > To give you overview, here is the output from sessionInfo:
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
> > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> > Running under: Fedora 33 (Workstation Edition)
> >
> > Matrix products: default
> > BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib64/libflexiblas.so.3.0
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] htmlwidgets_1.5.3 colorspace_2.0-0 scales_1.1.1
> > compiler_4.0.4
> > [5] magrittr_2.0.1 R6_2.5.0 leaflet_2.0.4.1
> > htmltools_0.5.1.1
> > [9] tools_4.0.4 crosstalk_1.1.1 digest_0.6.27
> > lifecycle_1.0.0
> > [13] munsell_0.5.0 rlang_0.4.10 CoprManager_0.3.7.1
> >>
> >
> > After trying complete reinstalls of R, RStudio, and the CRAN repositories
> > here's the last error messages I've gotten in my attempts to install and
> > load tidyverse:
> >
> >
> >> install.packages(c("broom", "callr", "cli", "cpp11", "dbplyr", "haven",
> >> "highr", "knitr", "pillar", "processx", "RcppArmadillo", "reprex",
> >> "tibble", "tinytex", "vctrs", "viridis", "viridisLite", "withr"))
> > Install system packages...
> >> install.packages("tidyverse")
> > Install system packages...
> >> library(tidyverse)
> > Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j
> > <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
> > namespace ‘broom’ 0.7.5 is being loaded, but >= 0.7.6 is required
> >
> > Attempts to install or update broom fail with no output.
> >
> > I've been searching for similar reports of failure here in these archives,
> > on the RStudio forums, and on the internet and have found nothing that's a
> > seamless match. If I can't find anything I'll check out filing a bug
> > report (I've never done it with R before).
> >
> > Any help with a starting point in diagnosing this will be appreciated.
>
> Are you using install_github(), or otherwise installing non-CRAN
> versions? If so, stop doing that. First, run update.packages(ask=FALSE)
> to make sure you are up to date. Then delete any package that is newer
> than the CRAN version, and reinstall it using the basic install.packages().
>
> Here's code to compare versions:
>
> CRAN <- available.packages()
> here <- installed.packages()
> for (i in seq_len(nrow(here))) {
> if (here[i, "Package"] %in% rownames(CRAN) &&
> package_version(here[i, "Version"]) >
> package_version(CRAN[here[i, "Package"], "Version"]))
> cat(here[i, c("Package", "Version")], "\n", sep=" " )
> }
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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