[R] Error: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘BiocManager’

[Ankush Sharma]

The packages were installed after the update!

Best Regards
*Ankush Sharma*


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 1:56 PM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> The packages must not be loaded when you try to update.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> On 19.06.2020 12:07, Ankush Sharma wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am working R version 4.0.1 macos catalina , I´m not able to load
> > libraries e.g ggplot2
> >
> > Error: Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’ in
> > loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
> >   there is no package called ‘gtable’
> > Then i tried installing gtable,  But  installation is showing error :
> > Error in install.packages : cannot remove prior installation of package
> > ‘gtable’
> >
> > This is also for other packages like BiocManager, when I manually changed
> > the name or removed the BiocManager from the library, the package was
> > smoothly installed.
> > Any pointers on how to solve this problem without manual removal of
> > packages.  remove.packages command is also not working.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > *Ankush Sharma*
> >
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