I am unable to install ggplot, there occurs some error

Question

there is this long error message when i try to install ggplot, please someone help me. Thanks!

install.packages("ggplot2") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/HP/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’ (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 0.3.4 1.0.1 TRUE ggplot2 3.1.1 3.3.5 FALSE

Binaries will be installed trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/rlang_0.3.4.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 1080437 bytes (1.0 MB) downloaded 1.0 MB

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpwfvrv8\downloaded_packages installing the source package ‘ggplot2’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.3.5.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3063309 bytes (2.9 MB) downloaded 2.9 MB

• installing source package 'ggplot2' ... ** package 'ggplot2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** R ** data *** moving datasets to lazyload DB ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : namespace 'rlang' 0.3.4 is being loaded, but >= 0.4.10 is required ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ggplot2'
• removing 'C:/Users/HP/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/ggplot2' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.1/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\HP\Documents\R\win-library\3.4" C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpwfvrv8/downloaded_packages/ggplot2_3.3.5.tar.gz' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘ggplot2’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpwfvrv8\downloaded_packages’

Answer 1

It's saying your "rlang" version is outdated. Update that, it should be fine. Update all the libraries, that's a good practice while installing packages. (you do the same from tool option in menubar of Rstudio and update package)