Failure of installing tidymodels

Question

I can not install tidymodels in R studio. By this error, i tried to remove the current rlang, and reinstall it but i still can not install tidymodels package.

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidymodels’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.7 is already loaded, but >= 0.4.8 is required

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 19:29

I would suggest restarting R, installing rlang from CRAN via install.packages("rlang"), and then restarting R again. At this point, if you type the following in the console:

library(rlang)
sessionInfo() 
#> R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
#> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
#> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> other attached packages:
#> [1] rlang_0.4.9
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] crayon_1.3.4.9000    digest_0.6.27        backports_1.2.0     
#>  [4] lifecycle_0.2.0      reprex_0.3.0.9001    magrittr_2.0.1      
#>  [7] evaluate_0.14        pillar_1.4.7         highr_0.8           
#> [10] stringi_1.5.3        rstudioapi_0.13      fs_1.5.0            
#> [13] vctrs_0.3.5          ellipsis_0.3.1       rmarkdown_2.5.3     
#> [16] styler_1.3.2         tools_4.0.3          stringr_1.4.0       
#> [19] purrr_0.3.4          xfun_0.19            yaml_2.2.1          
#> [22] compiler_4.0.3       pkgconfig_2.0.3      htmltools_0.5.0.9002
#> [25] knitr_1.30           tibble_3.0.4

^{Created on 2020-12-01 by the reprex package (v0.3.0.9001)}

you should see that you have the current rlang version from CRAN. At this point, you should be able to install other packages that depend on rlang, like tidymodels.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '22 at 05:51

I too had trouble installing tidymodels with R version _ 4.0.4 and R Studio version 1.4.1106.

I had tried updating/re-installing rlang and some other dependencies. BUT I guess for my version of R, I wasn't getting the latest versions.

But finally what worked for me is updating my R version to the latest 4.2.2 (I also updated R Studio, it should not matter but thought of doing so as my R studio keeps reminding of the update)

After this installing tidymodels worked seamlessly.

Failure of installing tidymodels

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