non zero exit when installing package, only tidyverse

Question

I\'ve set up hosted RStudio on Ubunto and have loaded several packages already with no issues, including caret and lubridate.

However, when I tried to install tidyverse

Answer 1

Looks like an issue with readr...

Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) : 
  shared object ‘readr.so’ not found

Use the code below to check if the package is installed. If not, it will be installed

#Specify packages
packages = c("readr")

package.check <- lapply(packages, FUN = function(x) {
  if (!require(x, character.only = TRUE)) {
    install.packages(x, dependencies = TRUE)
    library(x, character.only = TRUE)
  }
})

#Verify they are loaded
search()

If it is installed, the file may be locked...

#If "failed to create lock" is the returned error, install with the below code;
install.packages("readr", dependencies=TRUE, INSTALL_opts = c('--no-lock'))

(https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse/issues/99)