Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stats’ in inDL

pieterjanvc · August 28, 2020, 12:39pm

Hi,

These types of errors usually happen when there are issues with the PATH variable as explained in this similar post

Unable to load shared object on startup in RStudio only RStudio IDE

I'm not sure what I did, and my IS team is stumped. I updated R from 3.5.2 to 3.6.0 and R throws this error when opened in RStudio There is no problem when running R in the gui. Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stats’ in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...): unable to load shared object 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.0/library/stats/libs/x64/stats.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified module could not be found. I can navigate to the stats.dll file and the dll file matches my .libPaths(): "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.0/library" I have uninstalled and reinstalled both R and RStudio (1.2.1335). I have also restarted my computer. Any help or even temporary solutions wo…

I don't know if a remote desktop can change the PATH variable for different users, but it's worth exploring I guess. I have no experience with remote desktops, so I can be wrong, but who knows ...

PJ