rstudio packages do not upgrade

[EconomiCurtis]

This error seems to be associated with a previous package installation being interrupted / terminated abnormally. You can fix this by removing the lock file as said. Within the R console, try:

unlink("C:/Users/Usuario/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/00LOCK-dplyr", recursive = TRUE)

I'm following the line of reasoning here;

https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203309146-Build-error

R install.packages returns "failed to create lock directory"

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In diagnosing these types of issues, it's important to know the difference between R and RStudio. Package installation is an R issue. RStudio is an IDE for R

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…