Rstudio - cannot install Tidyverse or other packages

Question

I've started to re-use R through RStudio, and I've not used it for a while. For some reason, I'm having trouble installing tidyverse and a number of other packages. In my previous experience, this was such a simple task. I just reinstalled the latest version of RStudio and it doesn't seem to help.

The problem seems to be that I have a non-zero exit, and that a lot of the dependent packages are not available. Ì get text such as the following as well.

Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

       binary source needs_compilation
cli     1.0.0  2.0.2             FALSE
rlang   0.2.0  0.4.5              TRUE
pillar  1.2.1  1.4.3             FALSE

Any advice on where to start?

Definitely an error, after installing tidyverse and I type library(tidyverse), I see that there is no package called tidyverse. — BillHammond
Does this answer your question? Rtools not being detected by R — AMC
I think this might be on the right path - I will have to try a few things from that thread — BillHammond
This question may be relevant: stackoverflow.com/q/60356442/2554330 — user2554330

eonurk eonurk · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-09T18:32:59

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install.packages(c("cli", "rlang", "pillar"))

Rstudio - cannot install Tidyverse or other packages

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