Error while installing package kableExtra in R

Question

I am trying to install kableExtra and get the following errors:

Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = 
vI[[j]]) : 
there is no package called 'hms'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'kableExtra'

*removing 'C:/Users/Tim/Documents/R/win-library/3.2/kableExtra'
Warning in install.packages :
running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.5/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\Tim\Documents\R\win-library\3.2"      
C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUJQfwD/downloaded_packages/kableExtra_0.9.0. 
 tar.gz' had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘kableExtra’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUJQfwD\downloaded_packages’

How can I solve my problem? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

it seems kableExtra depends on the package "hms" so try install it before with:

install.packages("hms")

or via rstudio interface: packages -> install and type in "hms"

also try this command:

install.packages("kableExtra", dependencies = TRUE)

If there appear problems like installing rlang or something similar, there is no general solution for this. You can try to (re)install rtools. Sometimes there are missing parts of r installations. My guess if R can't install a dependencie is, that some library or tools of the R environment are missing or wrongly installed which have to be detected.