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Getting Error Message When I Try to Install Tidyverse Package #165

Closed avivawaldman closed 3 years ago

avivawaldman commented 3 years ago

Today when we were working on the exercises in class, I found that I could not open the tidyverse package on my local R installation, which I am using because every time I try to open the RStudio server I get a page not found error despite having installed the VPN software. I first installed the devtools package, which worked, and then when I tried to install the tidyverse package and open the library I got the error message : Error in install.packages : object 'tidyverse' not found, along with a warning that I did not have Rtools installed. I am not sure why it would not be working except that possibly it is a problem with my computer?

bensoltoff commented 3 years ago

Are you using a Mac or Windows machine? If you are on a windows machine, you probably need to install Rtools which is a separate application needed to install certain packages in R.

avivawaldman commented 3 years ago

That fixed it, thank you!