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Been trying to install googleway for more than a week and it is just not working.

i have used the: install.packages("googleway", dependencies= T)'

install.packages("googleway",
                 repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
                         "http://cran.rstudio.com"))

i see it in my package list but when i try to call it with library it gives an error that another package is missing. the packages are : mime jsonlite Rcpp

tried installing these separately but still..

sessionInfo()
    R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:

[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.2 tools_3.4.2

trying to install today was successful, library() command gave the below

library(googleway)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘googleway’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
 there is no package called ‘shiny’

going back to the installation code: 

package ‘shiny’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

tried to seperately installing 'shiny', got the below error message when installation finished:

Error: invalid version specification ‘NA’
In addition: Warning message:
In utils:::packageDescription(packageName, fields = "Version") :
  no package 'knitr' was found

tried to call googleway after that:

    library(googleway)
    Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘googleway’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):

 there is no package called ‘htmltools’

i did try to install knitr still i get that a certain package is missing when i call googleway

note that i am able to download other packages and calling them successfully.

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  • What is the exact output of `install.packages` and `library()`? If you tried installing the dependencies separately, did you get any error messages? What version of R and OS are you using (include your `sessionInfo()`.). – MrFlick Oct 09 '17 at 14:51
  • Can you load the other packages separately? – Gregor Thomas Oct 09 '17 at 15:03
  • edited the question with the info. – Rifa1234 Oct 10 '17 at 06:05
  • I don't know why it's not installing the dependencies: have you tried to install `htmltools` manually too? – SymbolixAU Oct 10 '17 at 07:25
  • Yes, still i got `R6` as missing. I am not sure as well. i will try to uninstall and reinstall everything to rule out other hidden causes. thanks for the help and will keep you posted!! – Rifa1234 Oct 11 '17 at 11:34
  • If you find this to be an issue specific to `googleway` would you mind filing an issue report on [the github issue report page](https://github.com/SymbolixAU/googleway/issues) ? – SymbolixAU Oct 11 '17 at 21:09

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The problem was not with googleway as other packages started doing the same.

I uninstalled and reinstalled R and Rstudio then i reset R studio to desktop state using this link

https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200534577-Resetting-RStudio-s-State

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