R package Installation error

englianhu · August 22, 2021, 2:35pm

refered below link, reinstall r & rstudio but doen't work on my case.

I can't install any package on Linux (Ubuntu) with the install.packages() function! General

Together with a seasoned Linux user at my institution, we managed to solve the issue - Thanks, Dr Ayan Sengupta! Below is the "recipe" that worked for me. Prune away your library paths The problem was likely caused by some conflicts in the folder tree of R's library. The easiest thing I could do was to delete the library's folders. Instructions Open the terminal. Run R -e '.libPaths()'. The output will look something like this: > .libPaths() [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" [2] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/R/library" Remove, one by one, all the directories you just printed out. for example, run sudo -rm -r /usr/lib/R/library. …