Error package or namespace load failed for ggplot2 and for data table

Question

I am not able to open install the ggplot2 and data table packages  It gives me the following error  example for ggplot2    gt  library ggplot2  Error in loadNamespace j  lt - i  1L    c lib loc   libPaths     versionCheck   vI  j         there is no package called    Rcpp    Error  package or namespace load failed for    ggplot2      I was able to work fine with these 2 packages before I closed my R session  Now it shows me this error each time I try to run it   I have also tried to remove and re-install it  but without success   remove packages c  ggplot2    data table    install packages  ggplot2   dep   TRUE  install packages  data table   dep   TRUE    I am not sure what s wrong

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After a wild goose chase with tons of Google searches and burteforce attempts, I think I found how to solve this problem.

Steps undertaken to solve the problem:

Uninstall R
Reinstall R
Install ggplot with the dependencies argument to install.packages set to TRUE

install.packages("ggplot2",dependencies = TRUE)
The above step still does NOT include the Rcpp dependency so that has to be manually installed using the following command

install.packages("Rcpp")

However, while the above command successfully downloads Rcpp, for some reason, it fails to explode the ZIP file and install it in my R's library folder citing the following error:

package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages : unable to move temporary installation ‘C:\Root_Prgs\Data_Science_SW\R\R-3.2.3\library\file27b8ef47b6d\Rcpp’ to ‘C:\Root_Prgs\Data_Science_SW\R\R-3.2.3\library\Rcpp’

The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\MY_USER_ID\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp25XQ0S\downloaded_packages

Note that the above output says "Warning" but actually, it is an indication of failure to install the Rcpp package successfully within the repository. I then used the Tools-->Install packages--> From ZIP file and pointed to the location of the "downloaded binary packages" in the message above -

C:\Users\MY_USER_ID\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp25XQ0S\downloaded_packages\Rcpp_0.12.3.zip

This led to successful installation of Rcpp in my R\R-3.2.3\library folder, thereby ensuring that Rcpp is now available when I attempt to load the library for ggplot2. I could not do this step in the past because my previous installation of R would throw error stating that Rcpp cannot be imported. However, the same command worked after I uninstalled and reinstalled R, which is ODD.

install.packages("C:/Users/MY_USER_ID/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp25XQ0S/downloaded_packages/Rcpp_0.12.3.zip", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary") package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked`
I was finally able to load the ggplot2 library successfully.

library(ggplot2)

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Try this   install packages  Rcpp   install packages  ggplot2   install packages  data table

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For me  i had to uninstall R from brew brew uninstall --force R and then head over to the R website and download and install it from there

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This solved the issue   remove packages c  ggplot2    data table    install packages  Rcpp   dependencies   TRUE  install packages  ggplot2   dependencies   TRUE  install packages  data table   dependencies   TRUE

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when you see      Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation   Yes no cancel    answer no

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I tried all the listed solutions above but nothing worked  This is what worked for me     Look at the complete error message which you get when you use library ggplot2    It lists a couple of packages which are missing or have errors  Uninstall and reinstall them  ggplot should work now with a warning for version

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I had this same problem  but when running in a jupyter R notebook in an Anaconda environment     The problem presented in such a way that any R notebook opened would instantly die and would not allow cell execution   The error would show up with each failed automated attempt to start the kernel   Error in loadNamespace j  lt - i  1L    c lib loc   libPaths     versionCheck   vI  j         there is no package called    Rcpp      To solve this  I ran as admin sudo  conda install -c r r-rcpp  restarted the kernel  and everything was back to normal

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These steps work for me    Download the Rcpp manually from WebSite  https   cran r-project org web packages Rcpp index html   unzip the folder files to  Rcpp  folder Locate the  library  folder under R install directory Ex  C  R R-3 3 1 library Copy the  Rcpp  folder to Library folder    Good to go     library Rcpp  library ggplot2

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I had the same problem with the package  tidyverse   I solved the problem with  1  uninstalling the package  Rcpp  and  tidyverse   2  reinstalling  Rcpp  and answering the following questions during the installation process   Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation   Yes no cancel    with   no    reinstalling  tidyverse

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I tried the steps mentioned in the earlier posts but without any success  However  what worked for me was uninstalling R completely and then deleting the R folder which files in the documents folder  so basically everything do with R except the scripts and work spaces I had saved  I then reinstalled R and ran   remove packages c  ggplot2    data table    install packages  Rcpp   dependencies   TRUE  install packages  ggplot2   dependencies   TRUE  install packages  data table   dependencies   TRUE    This rather crude method somehow worked for me

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I also faced the same problem and   remove packages c  ggplot2    data table    install packages  Rcpp   dependencies   TRUE  install packages  ggplot2   dependencies   TRUE    these commands did not work for me  What I found was that it was showing a warning message that it could not move temporary installation C  Users User name Documents R win-library 3 3 abcd1234 Rcpp to C  Users User name Documents R win-library 3 3 Rcpp   I downloaded the Rcpp zip file from the link given and unziped it and copied it inside C  Users User name Documents R win-library 3 3 and then   library Rcpp  library ggplot2     worked  I did not have to uninstall R  Hope this helps

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Faced same issue and solved by    remove packages  ggplot2   install packages  ggplot2   dependencies   TRUE

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