R version control error for pophelper

[aramo685]

Hi
I am having some problem installing pophelper package in R version 3.6.0 for Windows 10. I am using the following code:

code

system('defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8')
install.packages(c("Cairo","ggplot2","gridExtra","gtable","tidyr","devtools"),dependencies=T)
devtools::install_github('royfrancis/pophelper')
library(pophelper)

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

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/mgara/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'pophelper' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: (converted from warning) package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 3.6.3
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'pophelper'
• removing 'C:/Users/mgara/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/pophelper'
  Error: Failed to install 'pophelper' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/mgara/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpMv0EoJ/file22dc66d76dd1/pophelper_2.3.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Please help me.
Regards
Motia

[royfrancis]

Yep. You still to install Rtools on windows to be able to build packages. Go here and download the Rtools version depending on your R version. Install it, restart your computer, then try the installation again.

[aramo685]

Hi again
Yes, I installed Rtools on windows and then restarted my computer and then tried the installation but again the same error message that-
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/mgara/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'pophelper' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: (converted from warning) package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.0.3
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'pophelper'
• removing 'C:/Users/mgara/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/pophelper'
  Error: Failed to install 'pophelper' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/mgara/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp8OcIcv/file2d6417913c3e/pophelper_2.3.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

what is mean by that - pophelper_2.3.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Regards
Motia

[jks383]

I had the same issue, was this resolved?