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Cannot install ‘tidyverse’ package

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Cannot install ‘tidyverse’ package

Super Learner 6 months ago
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Hi,
The following message popped up when I tried to install package “tidyverse”. I am wondering if the package is still available. Thank you.
install.packages(“tidyverse”)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES’
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Guihua/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES’
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘tidyverse’ is not available (for R version 3.6.3)

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6 months ago
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The ‘tidyverse’ package is still available, please try to update your R and Rstudio and install the package again, it worked for me. Thanks. 

Hi Joonseok, thank you for your reply. I just installed R and RStudio last week. I checked Rstudio and it is the latest version. The newest R version 4.0.0 has just been release on 2020-04-24. the version I have is 3.6.3 and was released 2020-02-29. I am wondering if you always need to update to the latest version for Tidyverse to be installed?

– 6 months

Or do I need always to follow the release news and update them accordingly?

– 6 months

Super Learner 6 months ago
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Hello,
I downloaded the latest version R 4.0.0 and it could not install Tidyverse either with similar warning package ‘tidyverse’ is not available (for R version 4.0.0). 
Are we going to use this package extensively for the coming courses? Can I get away without installing it?
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install.packages(“tidyverse”)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES’
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Guihua/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES’
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘tidyverse’ is not available (for R version 4.0.0)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0:
cannot open URL ‘https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/PACKAGES’

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