[R] Updating Rcpp package when it is claimed by dplyr

[Jeff Newmiller]

Your last statement is extremely unlikely to be true. The dplyr package should not be present in a vanilla environment, so there should be no such conflict. 
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On February 1, 2018 11:00:01 PM PST, Patrick Connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>When i  tried to install the hunspell package, I got this error
>message:
>
>Error: package ‘Rcpp’ 0.12.3 was found, but >= 0.12.12 is required by
>‘hunspell’
>
>So I set about installing a new version of Rcpp but I get this message:
>
>Error in unloadNamespace(pkg_name) : 
>  namespace ‘Rcpp’ is imported by ‘dplyr’ so cannot be unloaded
>
>How does one get around that?  I tried installing Rcpp in a vanilla
>session but the result was the same.
>
>TIA
>Patrick
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
>R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
>Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>
>Matrix products: default
>BLAS: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRblas.so
>LAPACK: /home/pat/local/R-3.4.3/lib/libRlapack.so
>
>locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8    
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8   
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
>[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] utils     stats     grDevices graphics  methods   base     
>
>other attached packages:
>[1] lattice_0.20-35
>
>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>[1] compiler_3.4.3 magrittr_1.5   R6_2.1.2       assertthat_0.1
>parallel_3.4.3
>[6] tools_3.4.3    DBI_0.3.1      dplyr_0.4.3    Rcpp_0.12.3   
>grid_3.4.3    
>
>
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