Help regarding package loading: Error: package or namespace load failed for 'dplyr'

[SterlingWright2016]

Hello,

I have been having a lot of trouble with loading my libraries in R lately. For instance, I have been getting the recent error messages.

library(dplyr)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’ in get(Info[i, 1], envir = env):
lazy-load database 'C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/ellipsis/R/ellipsis.rdb' is corrupt
In addition: Warning message:
In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1
normalizePath()
Error in path.expand(path) : argument "path" is missing, with no default

When I run the following commands
.libPaths()
[1] "C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/3.6"
[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.3/library"

I have tried to reset my .Renviron profile by using
R_LIBS_SITE="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.3/library"
R_HISTSIZE=100000
GITHUB_PAT=abc123

I tried using the usethis:: command but my RStudio does not recognize it. I am able to load packages in R but not in RStudio.

Sys.getenv("R_HOME")
[1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-36~1.3"

Please help me as I am at a lost for words on how to fix this issue. I am sorry that I am so incompetent.

This is what I have in my .Renviron file

R_LIBS_SITE="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.3/library"
R_LIBS_USER="C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/3.6"
R_HISTSIZE=100000
GITHUB_PAT=abc123
PATH=/C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/3.6
#PATH="{RTOOLS40_HOME}\usr\bin;{PATH}"

It is located in
/mnt/c/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents

[pieterjanvc]

Hi,

Did you try and reinstall the dplyr package, and the ellipsis package? Sometime that just fixes the issues.

Let me know if this helps,
PJ

[SterlingWright2016]

Hi, PJ,

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, that did not work. Here is the output:

remove.packages(c("dplyr", "ellipsis"))
Removing packages from ‘C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
install.packages(c("dplyr", "ellipsis"))
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 packages into ‘C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/dplyr_1.0.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1309742 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/ellipsis_0.3.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 46076 bytes (44 KB)
downloaded 44 KB

package ‘dplyr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘ellipsis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Sterling L. Wright\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpawAqWQ\downloaded_packages

remove.packages(c("dplyr", "ellipsis"))
Removing packages from ‘C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
install.packages(c("dplyr", "ellipsis"))
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 packages into ‘C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/dplyr_1.0.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1309742 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/ellipsis_0.3.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 46076 bytes (44 KB)
downloaded 44 KB

package ‘dplyr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘ellipsis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Sterling L. Wright\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpawAqWQ\downloaded_packages

library(dplyr)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
DLL ‘vctrs’ not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?
In addition: Warning message:
S3 methods ‘!.vctrs_vctr’, ‘!=.vctrs_vctr’, ‘$.vctrs_list_of’, ‘$.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘$.vctrs_sclr’, ‘$.vctrs_vctr’, ‘$<-.vctrs_list_of’, ‘$<-.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘$<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘$<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘%%.vctrs_vctr’, ‘%/%.vctrs_vctr’, ‘&.vctrs_vctr’, ‘*.vctrs_vctr’, ‘+.vctrs_vctr’, ‘-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘/.vctrs_vctr’, ‘<.vctrs_vctr’, ‘<=.vctrs_vctr’, ‘==.vctrs_vctr’, ‘>.vctrs_vctr’, ‘>=.vctrs_vctr’, ‘[.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘[.vctrs_sclr’, ‘[.vctrs_unspecified’, ‘[.vctrs_vctr’, ‘[<-.vctrs_list_of’, ‘[<-.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘[<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘[<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘[[.vctrs_list_of’, ‘[[.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘[[.vctrs_sclr’, ‘[[.vctrs_vctr’, ‘[[<-.vctrs_list_of’, ‘[[<-.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘[[<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘[[<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘^.vctrs_vctr’, ‘dim<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘dim<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘dimnames<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘dimnames<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘is.na<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘is.na<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘length<-.vctrs_rcrd’, ‘length<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘levels<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘levels<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘names<-.vctrs_sclr’, ‘names<-.vctrs_vctr’, ‘|.vctrs_vctr’, ‘Complex.vctrs_scl [... truncated]
Error: cannot open file 'C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/BiocManager/R/BiocManager.rdb': No such file or directory
In addition: Warning message:
restarting interrupted promise evaluation

I am so sorry.

[jeroen]

Some comments:

In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1

This always means you need to restart R after you installed a new package while it was in use. If that doesn't work, close all your R sessions, and reinstall the package in a fresh R session that does not have the package currently loaded.

library(dplyr)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
DLL ‘vctrs’ not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?

If you read the error message, it looks like the vctrs package (on which dplyr depends) is broken. Again: close and restart R, and install.packages("vctrs").

Removing packages from ‘C:/Users/Sterling L. Wright/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’

Your username has spaces in it. This is very likely to cause problems. If you can, please create a username without spaces or diacritics, it will make everything work much better.