Error when installing rmarkdown

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I have this error when trying to run install.packages("rmarkdown"). Can someone please let me know what's wrong?

  • installing source package 'rmarkdown' ... ** package 'rmarkdown' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : there is no package called 'backports' ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'rmarkdown'
  • removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.3/library/rmarkdown'
  • restoring previous 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.3/library/rmarkdown' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.2.3\library" C:\Users\knguyen\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp0KyOP9/downloaded_packages/rmarkdown_1.6.tar.gz' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rmarkdown’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\knguyen\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp0KyOP9\downloaded_packages’

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The error is telling you that backports is missing. Considering that doesn't appear in the depends list for rmarkdown it makes me wonder what version you are using. Can you post your session info? – Kevin Arseneau

2 Answers

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Try install the package backports as mentioned in the error.

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Try installing the new R Version https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/3.4.3/. I tried installing R markdown in my R studio, but it keeps looping to ask me to install the package. The R version on my R studio was version 1.1, and after I installed the new R Version, installing the R Markdown package was a success. Hopefully this could help.