R Studio Package Installation Not Recognized - cannot remove prior installation of package ‘...’

It looks like the library folders are locked, and can't be overwritten.

The key pieces of information, to me, are

Installing package into �C:/Users/---/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/3.5�

and

cannot remove prior installation of package ‘lmtest’

In my experience, when this happens, I usually go to C:/Users/---/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/3.5, delete the lmtest folder. With the folder deleted, install.packages should be able to write the package.

There's probably a more elegant way to do this, but that's the solution I've been using.

1 Like