Seems like they should install the xml2 package before proceeding to load whatever (tidyverse).
This kind of "dependency missing" problem tends to be a recurring problem particularly on Windows but in general when some deeply-embedded dependency fails to load or is removed in preparation for upgrading. On September 24, 2021 10:40:41 AM PDT, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote: >Below is some output from one of my students. I have never seen this error and >tried a few things (updating packages for one) but am at a loss to help >further. Would appreciate suggestions that I can pass along. > >Here is the error. I tried an install.packages(“xml2”) which appeared to >complete but the error persists. > >> library("tidyverse") >Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in library.dynam(lib, >package, package.lib): >DLL ‘xml2’ not found: maybe not installed for this architecture? > >Here is the sessionInfo() > >> sessionInfo() >R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) >Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042) > >Matrix products: default > >locale: >[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 >LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C >[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 > >attached base packages: >[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >[1] Rcpp_1.0.7 cellranger_1.1.0 pillar_1.6.2 compiler_4.1.1 dbplyr_2.1.1 >forcats_0.5.1 tools_4.1.1 >[8] jsonlite_1.7.2 lubridate_1.7.10 lifecycle_1.0.0 tibble_3.1.4 gtable_0.3.0 >pkgconfig_2.0.3 rlang_0.4.11 >[15] reprex_2.0.1 DBI_1.1.1 haven_2.4.3 withr_2.4.2 dplyr_1.0.7 httr_1.4.2 >fs_1.5.0 >[22] generics_0.1.0 vctrs_0.3.8 hms_1.1.0 grid_4.1.1 tidyselect_1.1.1 >glue_1.4.2 R6_2.5.1 >[29] fansi_0.5.0 readxl_1.3.1 tzdb_0.1.2 tidyr_1.1.3 ggplot2_3.3.5 purrr_0.3.4 >readr_2.0.1 >[36] modelr_0.1.8 magrittr_2.0.1 backports_1.2.1 scales_1.1.1 ellipsis_0.3.2 >assertthat_0.2.1 colorspace_2.0-2 >[43] utf8_1.2.2 munsell_0.5.0 broom_0.7.9 crayon_1.4.1 > -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.