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

[Ankush Sharma]

Thanks, Duncan and Uwe,
I was using Rstudio.  This solved the problem

Best Regards
*Ankush Sharma*


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:25 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 19/06/2020 8:06 a.m., Ankush Sharma wrote:
> > The packages were installed after the update!
>
> That's not relevant.  The issue is that the packages were loaded at the
> time you tried to update them.
>
> You may have to start R with the --vanilla option to avoid automatically
> loading packages if you've got a .Rprofile (or similar) file running
> automatically on startup.
>
> A simpler solution to this is to use RStudio; it will automatically
> restart R if necessary when installing a package.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > 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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