Issue plotting with ggmap in R

Question

I am trying to make a map using ggmap pulling the image from google. Below is my code where I am trying to pull a plot of Utah and then plot it.

The plot will not be made because of the error that I receive: "error in as.vector(y) : attempt to apply non-function."

Any clue on what is going on and why it won't work?

R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
#pull map of Utah

Ut.map <- get_map(location=c(-111, 39.5), zoom=7, maptype="roadmap")

Map from URL : http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=39.5,-111&zoom=7&size=640x640&scale=2&maptype=roadmap&language=en-EN&sensor=false

ggmap(Ut.map)

Error in as.vector(y) : attempt to apply non-function

Edit: 11/14/2016 4:00 pm

I updated R, Rstudio, and ggplot2. Now I receive this error message when I try to load ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
there is no package called ‘Rcpp’
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’

I tried to install Rcpp and I receive this message:

install.packages("Rcpp")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/justi/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL
'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/Rcpp_0.12.7.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 3265506 bytes (3.1 MB)
downloaded 3.1 MB

package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning in install.packages :
unable to move temporary installation ‘C:\Users\justi\Documents\R\win-     
library\3.3\file150426f11cb7\Rcpp’ to ‘C:\Users\justi\Documents\R\win-  
library\3.3\Rcpp’

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\justi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpesXik0\downloaded_packages

Now I can't run anything related to ggplot or anything. My new R details are:

R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"
Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

restart didn't work. Reinstall made it even worse (see above edit) — Justin

Justin Justin · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-14T21:43:11

Fixed the problem! So another person had issues installing the Rcpp package (https://github.com/hadley/dplyr/issues/2002)

Following their advise, I suspended my antivirus coverage and was able to easily install all packages with no errors.

Following this complete reinstall of R, Rstudio, ggplot2, and ggmap, I was finally able to get the plot with no issues.

Helpful advise for anyone in the future, try deactivating your antivirus to install updates to packages!

Issue plotting with ggmap in R

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