Unable to load car package in R

[martimsilva]

Error Information:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘data.table’

Description of issue -
When I try to install the "car" package I get the error above.

Steps taken so far -
I tried to install using the following commands:

if (!require(car)) {
    install.packages("car")
    require(car)
}

AND

install.packages("car")
library("car")

I have also reinstalled R and RStudio but the issue seems to persists

System Information:

• RStudio Edition: Desktop
• RStudio Version: 1.1.456
• OS Version: macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
• R Version: 3.5.1

Also:

• RStudio diagnostics report:

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R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Matrix products: default
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locale:
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attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets 
[6] methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] carData_3.0-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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[19] crayon_1.3.4     bindrcpp_0.2.2   purrr_0.2.5     
[22] ggplot2_3.0.0    curl_3.2         glue_1.3.0      
[25] compiler_3.5.1   pillar_1.3.0     scales_1.0.0    
[28] pkgconfig_2.0.2 

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os             darwin15.6.0                
system         x86_64, darwin15.6.0        
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2018                        
month          07                          
day            02                          
svn rev        74947                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
nickname       Feather Spray               
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Log file: rdesktop.log
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(Empty)

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24 Sep 2018 03:21:38 [rsession-martim] CLIENT EXCEPTION (rsession-martim): (TypeError) : null is not an object (evaluating 'this.b.a');|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/ChunkPlotPage.java#52::execute|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/ChunkPlotWidget.java#49::onBrowserEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/DOM.java#1414::dispatchEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplStandard.java#312::dispatchEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplStandard.java#334::dispatchUnhandledEvent|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#244::apply|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#283::entry0|||http://127.0.0.1:44283/#-1::anonymous|||Client-ID: 33e600bb-c1b1-46bf-b562-ab5cba070b0e|||User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh  Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)
24 Sep 2018 15:57:48 [rsession-martim] CLIENT EXCEPTION (rsession-martim): (TypeError) : null is not an object (evaluating 'this.b.a');|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/ChunkPlotPage.java#52::execute|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/ChunkPlotWidget.java#49::onBrowserEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/DOM.java#1414::dispatchEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplStandard.java#312::dispatchEvent|||com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplStandard.java#334::dispatchUnhandledEvent|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#244::apply|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#283::entry0|||http://127.0.0.1:44330/#-1::anonymous|||Client-ID: 33e600bb-c1b1-46bf-b562-ab5cba070b0e|||User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh  Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)

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From Troubleshooting Guide: Using RStudio

[jcblum]

@martimsilva

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘data.table’

I think you have successfully installed car, but it is failing to load due to a missing dependency, the package data.table. Try install.packages("data.table"). If R wants to compile the package from source and runs into trouble, see this related discussion:

Problem installing packages on r 3.5.1 running on mac (OS X 10.13 Sierra)

Hi @Berta! The attempt to install data.table failed due to a problem compiling the package from source. Before trying to fix that, though, you might try installing the binary (already compiled) version that's available — it's not that much older than the source version. To try this, run: install.packages("data.table", type = "binary") Then see if you can load Rcmdr. Does that work?

[martimsilva]

Thank you so much! Installing the binary version of data.table solved the issue

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