Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace

Question

I'm getting the following error when I'm loading tidyverse. It was all working fine a few minutes ago when I was running my shinyapp. How should I resolve this?

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): namespace ‘rlang’ 0.3.0.1 is already loaded, but >= 0.3.1 is required

Usually

hi, try to uninstall and reinstall the rlang package. Also check your libray paths. You can do so by typing .libPaths(). – Iminourea

Sure, thanks much. That worked. – Usually

Make sure that another R process/session that has the package loaded isn't running at the same time you're trying to reinstall the same package. – Prader

Answer 1

I had the same problem but managed to tackle it. You may remove the current version of rlang using the following command:

remove.packages("rlang")

and then install the rlang again:

install.packages("rlang")

After that run the library:

library(tidyverse)

Squires

This worked nicely for me! – Licentiate

This didn't work in my case. – Spalding

Worked thanks. Jesus. what a sh1t show. I'll be glad in the near future when all this grunt work will be taken care of by AI agents. That day can't come soon enough. – Contraoctave

Answer 2

In addition to unloading and reloading rlang,

Click on Tools in the tab and check for Package Updates to update tidyverse

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Answer 3

I faced this same problem and restarted R session and it worked fine after that.

Audio

Answer 4

Also had similar problem but resolved it after a struggle. I used:-

devtools::install_github("tidyverse/tidyverse")

Rader

Answer 5

I have just encountered the similar problem.

The error could translate into understandable English as:

package 'rlang' version 0.3.0.1 is loaded into R successfully, but the other package that based on 'ralng' required a higher version (at least 0.3.1).

So that manually install.packages('rlang') will update the latest appropriate package 'rlang'

Lisandra

Answer 6

I know this might be late answer,but I had the same issue and I fixed it by updating the packages, specifically : ggplot2, scales. according to this Rstudio site

Unequivocal

Answer 7

Start with install.packages("devtools") then install.packages("rlang").

Giddings

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Answer 8

I encountered the same error, but none of the solutions mentioned above worked. Instead, I resolved it by manually removing the 'cli' module, which was causing the error, from the folder where my packages for the version of R that I was using installed. You can use .libPaths() to help locate the directory where the packages are installed.

Misery