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Hi so I'm having trouble with R studios on my desktop where it won't let me open any packages. When I attempt to install a package with install.packages() like Tidyverse I get this error.

Error in library("tidyverse") : there is no package called ‘tidyverse’ Show in New Window Error in install.Rtools() : could not find function "install.Rtools" Show in New Window 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/ Installing package into ‘C:/Users/athen/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/tidyverse_1.3.1.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 430128 bytes (420 KB) downloaded 420 KB

Then when I try to load the package into my library with library("tidyverse") I receive this error

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...): unable to load shared object 'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/stats/libs/x64/stats.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified module could not be found.

This error isn't just for tidyverse but all packages I try to run. I have uninstalled R and RStudios multiple times, but the error doesn't go away. I have been to IT at my university and they were completely baffled. Please help if you can, I really need R to work for both my job and classes.

AthenaPolicyStudent
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    not clear from your question, you're not using `library` to attempt to install packages, right? did you successfully install r tools and complete the other steps to make sure it is in your path before installing packages? – rawr Dec 08 '21 at 21:53
  • I used install.packages(), then library("tidyverse") in an attempt to load the package. when I run find.package() and .libPaths() I get [1] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/graphics" [2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/grDevices" [3] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/utils" [4] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/datasets" [5] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library/methods" [6] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-41~1.2/library/base" [1] "C:/Users/athen/Documents/R/win-library/4.1" [2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.2/library" – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 08 '21 at 23:08
  • "I used install.packages()" -- does this mean you used `install.packages("tidyverse")` and that completed successfully? – Jon Spring Dec 08 '21 at 23:46
  • I think so I get this comment when i ran it WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding: – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 08 '21 at 23:59
  • https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/ Installing package into ‘C:/Users/athen/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/tidyverse_1.3.1.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 430128 bytes (420 KB) downloaded 420 KB package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\athen\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpm6KXzr\downloaded_packages – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 08 '21 at 23:59
  • Something seems very off about your R installation. How did you install R? Did you download directly from https://cloud.r-project.org/? What OS version are you running? Include the output of `sessionInfo()` so we can see the version of packages installed. Do you have a .Rprofile file in your home directory? Are you running as a regular user or with a privileged account? Are you using R directly or RStudio? – MrFlick Dec 09 '21 at 04:14
  • so I can't run sessionInfo() i get Warning in La_library() : unable to load shared object 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-41~1.2/modules/x64/lapack.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified module could not be found. Error in La_library() : LAPACK routines cannot be loaded. I'm using R studio – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 09 '21 at 07:01
  • I downloaded from cloud.r-project.org, and I don't have a privileged account. My operating system is a 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 09 '21 at 07:02
  • R used to run perfectly for me and then on Friday I ran into an issue where I couldn't load any new packages I was trying to install xslx. In an attempt to resolve the issue I reinstalled R. – AthenaPolicyStudent Dec 09 '21 at 07:12

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