going in circles - cli v >=3.6.1 is required and rlang >=1.1.0 is required

[OmicsUser_26]

I am trying to install the following on a PC (I am a Mac user and this works fine for me normally)
devtools::intsall_local("VisCello.celegans", force=T)
The folder VisCello.celegans is correctly located in the same working directory with the current Rproj
I run:
install.packages("devtools")
followed by devtools::intsall_local("VisCello.celegans", force=T)
I get the error: Error: package or namespace load failed for 'purrr' in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
namespace 'cli' 3.6.0 is already loaded, but >= 3.6.1 is required
Error : package 'purrr' could not be loaded
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed

• removing 'C:/Users/training17/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4/VisCello.celegans'
  Warning message:
  In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/TRAINI~3/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpCueQVG/file1c242a515c26/VisCello.celegans_1.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

So I did: install.packages("cli")
Restart R and the run again install.packages("devtools")
followed by devtools::intsall_local("VisCello.celegans", force=T)
(Note: I hace also manually deleted cli and replaced with downloaded cli 3.6.1, I have also tried install.packages ("cli", version = ">=3.6.1")

Now the error is: error in value [3L]: Package 'rlang' version 1.0.6 cannot be unloaded: Error in unloadNamespace(package): namespace 'rlang' is imported by 'ellipsis' so can't be unloaded

So then I install.packages("rlang")
and now I am back to the original error cli: Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,. .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]: namespace 'cli' 3.6.0 is already loaded, but >= 3.6.1 required.

sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Germany.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_Germany.utf8
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Germany.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Germany.utf8

time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] rlang_1.1.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] vctrs_0.6.5 cli_3.6.0 stringi_1.8.4 pkgload_1.3.4
[5] promises_1.3.0 shiny_1.8.1.1 xtable_1.8-4 glue_1.7.0
[9] htmltools_0.5.8.1 httpuv_1.6.15 pkgbuild_1.4.4 ellipsis_0.3.2
[13] fastmap_1.2.0 lifecycle_1.0.4 memoise_2.0.1 stringr_1.5.1
[17] compiler_4.4.0 miniUI_0.1.1.1 fs_1.6.4 htmlwidgets_1.6.4
[21] Rcpp_1.0.12 rstudioapi_0.14 later_1.3.2 digest_0.6.35
[25] R6_2.5.1 magrittr_2.0.3 tools_4.4.0 mime_0.12
[29] cachem_1.1.0

[Gabor]

I suggest you try pak [1], it behaves much better when updating packages that are loaded. You can install a local package with

pak::local_install()

[1] All about installing pak. — Installing pak • pak

[OmicsUser_26]

Thanks! I tried a few versions of this which didn't do much
This one:

pak::pak_install("r-lib/cli")

Its gets stuck in an infinity loop (image attached)
I have also tried to update all packages in r (not Rstudio) and this didn't fix anything either.

[Gabor]

It seems that something is wrong with your toolchain. But you don't need to install packages from GitHub, you can install binary packages from CRAN, and then no compilers are needed:

pak::pkg_install("cli")

To fix your toolchain, try reinstalling Rtools, the version that matches your R version.