I have been using read_excel for years... suddenly today I have this problem:
> T1 <- read_excel(fname,sheet="T1") Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : there is no package called ‘lifecycle’ So I install lifecycle: install.packages("lifecycle") 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/dennisweygand/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) also installing the dependency ‘rlang’ There are binary versions available but the source versions are later: binary source needs_compilation rlang 0.4.5 0.4.12 TRUE lifecycle 0.2.0 1.0.1 FALSE Binaries will be installed trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/rlang_0.4.5.zip ' Content type 'application/zip' length 1115838 bytes (1.1 MB) downloaded 1.1 MB package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages : cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’ The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\dennisweygand\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpKSler3\downloaded_packages installing the source package ‘lifecycle’ trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/lifecycle_1.0.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 99716 bytes (97 KB) downloaded 97 KB ERROR: dependency 'rlang' is not available for package 'lifecycle' * removing 'C:/Users/dennisweygand/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/lifecycle' In R CMD INSTALL Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘lifecycle’ had non-zero exit status The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\dennisweygand\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpKSler3\downloaded_packages’ Did it work? Try it again: > T1 <- read_excel(fname,sheet="T1") Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : there is no package called ‘lifecycle’ I am clueless: what am I doing wrong? Can anyone help? D.P. Weygand [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.