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

Question

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.

Answer 1

You should try removing remove.packages("rlang") then install.packages("rlang")