Rmarkdown: Cannot update packages

[YogeshVohra1]

Tried updating the Markdown package, but keep getting the error!

install.packages("rmarkdown", lib = "C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5")
Error in install.packages : Updating loaded packages

Restarting R session...

install.packages("rmarkdown", lib = "C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5")
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/
also installing the dependencies ‘knitr’, ‘tinytex’, ‘xfun’

There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
knitr 1.28 1.31 FALSE
tinytex 0.22 0.29 FALSE
xfun 0.13 0.20 TRUE
rmarkdown 2.1 2.6 FALSE

Binaries will be installed
trying URL'
Content type 'application/zip' length 184719 bytes (180 KB)
downloaded 180 KB

package ‘xfun’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Yogesh Vohra\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp639OTh\downloaded_packages
installing the source packages ‘knitr’, ‘tinytex’, ‘rmarkdown’

trying URL
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 891732 bytes (870 KB)
downloaded 870 KB

trying URL ''
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 27768 bytes (27 KB)
downloaded 27 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rmarkdown_2.6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3213194 bytes (3.1 MB)
downloaded 3.1 MB

• installing source package 'knitr' ...
  ** package 'knitr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** R
  ** demo
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
  namespace 'xfun' 0.13 is being loaded, but >= 0.19 is required
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'knitr'
• removing 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/knitr'
• restoring previous 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/knitr'
  In R CMD INSTALL
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘knitr’ had non-zero exit status
• installing source package 'tinytex' ...
  ** package 'tinytex' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
  namespace 'xfun' 0.13 is being loaded, but >= 0.19 is required
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'tinytex'
• removing 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/tinytex'
• restoring previous 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/tinytex'
  In R CMD INSTALL
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘tinytex’ had non-zero exit status
• installing source package 'rmarkdown' ...
  ** package 'rmarkdown' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
  namespace 'knitr' 1.21 is being loaded, but >= 1.22 is required
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'rmarkdown'
• removing 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/rmarkdown'
• restoring previous 'C:/Users/Yogesh Vohra/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/rmarkdown'
  In R CMD INSTALL
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘rmarkdown’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Yogesh Vohra\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp639OTh\downloaded_packages’

[andresrcs]

@YogeshVohra1

namespace 'xfun' 0.13 is being loaded, but >= 0.19 is required

This is the first problem you have to address, you are been asked to update xfun so try updating it

install.pacakges("xfun")

[YogeshVohra1]

Issue resolved by updating the R to the latest version.

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