Cant install GGplot

[Azri]

Hi All,

I am having problem installing GGPLOT package. This is what happened when I tried to install them.

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/Profile1/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘rlang’, ‘scales’

There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
rlang 0.4.11 1.0.4 TRUE
scales 1.1.1 1.2.1 FALSE
ggplot2 3.3.3 3.3.6 FALSE

Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rlang_0.4.11.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1224139 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\ Users\Profile1\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpory2Y8\downloaded_packages
installing the source packages ‘scales’, ‘ggplot2’

trying URL 'hxxxps://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/scales_1.2.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 270609 bytes (264 KB)
downloaded 264 KB

trying URL 'hxxxs://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.3.6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3061989 bytes (2.9 MB)
downloaded 2.9 MB

• installing source package 'scales' ...
  ** package 'scales' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :
  namespace 'rlang' 0.4.11 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.0 is required
  Calls: ... withCallingHandlers -> loadNamespace -> namespaceImport -> loadNamespace
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'scales'
• removing 'C:/Users/Profile1/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/scales'
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘scales’ had non-zero exit status
  ERROR: dependency 'scales' is not available for package 'ggplot2'
• removing 'C:/Users/Profile1/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/ggplot2'
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Profile1\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpory2Y8\downloaded_packages’

[SPratap]

Hi,
are you installing package by script or Rstudio package installer?
can you share me exactly how you are trying to install?

[Azri]

From script.

Install packages("ggplot2')

[andresrcs]

@Azri

namespace 'rlang' 0.4.11 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.0 is required

This is asking you to update rlang but the problem is that there is no binary available for your old R version and you haven't installed RTools in your system so you can't compile it from source.

To solve this you can either install a suitable RTools version for you or R version or update R so you can get access to precompiled binaries for the latest package versions.

[Azri]

I actually done both RStudio 2022.07.1 Build 554.

Install rtools42

[andresrcs]

RStudio is an IDE for the R programming language but it doesn't come with R bundled, you have to update it separately. You are currently using R 3.6 and RTools40 is for being used with R >4.0.0, the latest R version is 4.2.1 you can download it from here

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

[Azri]

Thanks! Got it working now.