Problem with install_packages and install_github

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I am getting an error when trying to install pagedown and I keep on getting the same error whether I use install.packages or remotes::install_github :

> install.packages("pagedown")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/??? ???/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘websocket’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/websocket_1.4.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 4077955 bytes (3.9 MB)
downloaded 3.9 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/pagedown_0.16.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 306200 bytes (299 KB)
downloaded 299 KB

Error in install.packages : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

and

> remotes::install_github('rstudio/pagedown')
Downloading GitHub repo rstudio/pagedown@HEAD
Installing 1 packages: websocket
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/??? ???/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/websocket_1.4.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 4077955 bytes (3.9 MB)
downloaded 3.9 MB

Error: Failed to install 'pagedown' from GitHub:
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Here is my sessionInfo:

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)

I'm not really sure what I'm getting wrong and would appreciate any help.

EDIT: added full output of the error

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We need more information to help you out with this, can you please post the complete error message you get?

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Thanks so much for the reminder -- I've edited the original post to include the full output

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I have seen this problem only once, I couldn't identify the cause for sure but apparently was solved by reinstalling R completely, including the base package library. See this related topic

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Ooofff. Though, thanks for the advice, @andresrcs!

I'll do a full reinstall -- actually, I'm just gonna reformat my pc since I was thinking of doing it anyway. This was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

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