Causes of "Error: package '_____' was built before 3.0.0: please re-install it" in R

Question

On one computer running R 2.15.2 I have installed packages from a .zip file (these packages happened to be ggplot2 and data.table, but I don't think the specific package is my issue.) Everything works fine. I took these packages to a computer without an internet connection and installed them. This other computer is running R 3.0.1. The packages seemed to install without a problem (using R's "install package(s) from local zip file" option). When I call the packages with the library(), I get the following error:

Error: package '<insert name of newly installed package here>' was build before 3.0.0: please-re-install it 

Can anyone explain potential causes for this error to be thrown? Are there particular directories that the .zip packages must be in for a proper install? If R is installed on a separate partition from where the .zip packages were loaded, could this cause the error?

I'm at a loss, any pointers are greatly appreciated. This is a difficult one to reproduce; if you need any other version/system parameters to understand the problem, please don't hesitate to ask.

Answer 1

I found this solution while look at GitHub ggplot2 issue #796

update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE) 

It will update all the packages that need to be reinstalled.

Answer 2

Running install.packages("codetools") can fix this issue for R 3.0.2, if you have the same problem like me:

installing to /home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/Rcpp/libs ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Error : package ‘**codetools**’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it Error : unable to load R code in package ‘Rcpp’ ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘Rcpp’