failure to load "tidyverse"

[judychen]

I have trouble loading "library(tidyverse)" today with the following error message:

"Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
namespace ‘vctrs’ 0.2.4 is being loaded, but >= 0.3.2 is required"

I've tried a few troubleshoots, including updating packages, upgrading Studio to 1.3.1093, install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE), install.packages("scales"), but still getting the same error message.

The Rstudio worked just fine yesterday. In fact, I have never encountered a similar problem before.

Would greatly appreciate any ideas on how to fix it.

Thanks,
Judy

[nirgrahamuk]

Hi Judy,
The original error message includes

 ‘vctrs’ 0.2.4 is being loaded, but >= 0.3.2 is required"

This means that installing a more up to date version is the way to go, before going back and trying to load tidyverse again.

install.packages("vctrs")

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alternatively if you install renv package like

install.packages("renv")

then you would be able to install a particular version of vctrs :

renv::install("vctrs@0.3.2")

[judychen]

@nirgrahamuk

renv::install("vctrs@0.3.2")

Thank you for your response.

I was able to install "renv", but got the following error messages when I tried "renv::install("vctrs@0.3.2")":

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘vctrs’

I searched prior post for the similar settings. It sounds like the error maybe due to mac system and one suggestion was to install Xcode.

Should I install Xcode? My other question is why I have not encountered the same problem over the past six months when I used Rstudio?

Thanks!
Judy