Or, to avoid accusing you of lying. what you think is "vanilla" probably isn't. What exactly did you do? On Unix-likes, I would do something like this
echo 'options(repos=list(CRAN="cran.r-project.org"));install.packages("Rcpp")' | R --vanilla (or maybe https://cloud.r-project.org is better...) -pd > On 2 Feb 2018, at 08:15 , Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > Your last statement is extremely unlikely to be true. The dplyr package > should not be present in a vanilla environment, so there should be no such > conflict. > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On February 1, 2018 11:00:01 PM PST, Patrick Connolly > <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >> When i tried to install the hunspell package, I got this error >> message: >> >> Error: package ‘Rcpp’ 0.12.3 was found, but >= 0.12.12 is required by >> ‘hunspell’ >> >> So I set about installing a new version of Rcpp but I get this message: >> >> Error in unloadNamespace(pkg_name) : >> namespace ‘Rcpp’ is imported by ‘dplyr’ so cannot be unloaded >> >> How does one get around that? I tried installing Rcpp in a vanilla >> session but the result was the same. >> >> TIA >> Patrick >> >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS >> >> Matrix products: default >> BLAS: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRblas.so >> LAPACK: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRlapack.so >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] utils stats grDevices graphics methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] lattice_0.20-35 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] compiler_3.4.3 magrittr_1.5 R6_2.1.2 assertthat_0.1 >> parallel_3.4.3 >> [6] tools_3.4.3 DBI_0.3.1 dplyr_0.4.3 Rcpp_0.12.3 >> grid_3.4.3 >> >> >> -- >> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. >> >> ___ Patrick Connolly >> {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas >> _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events >> (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people >> (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt >> >> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.