namespace 'rlang' 0.4.5 is being loaded, but >= 0.4.10 is required

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I'm trying to install the 'lifecycle' package but rlangs is required.

Upon typing install.packages('lifecyle') I get the error that I'm importing a rlangs package which is newer than required ('rlang' 0.4.5 is being loaded, but >= 0.4.10 is required).

  • installing source package 'lifecycle' ...
    ** package 'lifecycle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
    Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :
    namespace 'rlang' 0.4.5 is being loaded, but >= 0.4.10 is required
    ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'lifecycle'
  • removing 'C:/Users/user/R/library/lifecycle' In R CMD INSTALL
    Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘lifecycle’ had non-zero exit status

I've already uninstalled rlangs and reinstalled it on its own, but it still not working.

Not sure if it helps, but I get the following message beforehand:

There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
rlang - binary: 0.4.5 - source: 0.4.10 - needs_compilation: TRUE
lifecycle - binary: 0.2.0 - source: 1.0.0 - needs_compilation: FALSE

This error makes little sense and differs from others posts with this kind of error.

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2 Answers

First of all: your version is not newer, it's older. 0.4.5 < 0.4.10.

The issue is that for whatever reason the binary version you have access to is of version 0.4.5, but the source version (which needs compiling) is of version 0.4.10.

I believe the simplest solution would be downloading the source package and installing it as source.

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rlang/rlang_0.4.10.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

Now, if you don't want the trouble, I belive another possible solution would be updating your R version, which will in turn update the binary versions available for most packages.

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Not sure why but it worked for me, close all files in rstudio editor and run in the console:

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rlang/rlang_0.4.10.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

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