Can't load any package in R - r

Question

I am running R under macOS Catalina 10.15.5 (can't update to the newest version because it requires 17GB and it doesn't have so much space).
Yesterday, RStudio stopped working (not loading libraries that used to work for me, like dplyr or tidyverse).
After trying some codes like
update.package(checkBuilt = TRUE)
nothing changed. I have decided to uninstall and install again both R and RStudio, but nothing improved.
Error (e.g.: Tidyverse):
> install.packages("tidyverse", type="binary")
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.2/tidyverse_1.3.2.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 420896 bytes (411 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 411 KB
The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/83/1hdhv2r97017s9xxs6yj5hl00000gn/T//Rtmp8tahja/downloaded_packages
> library(tidyverse)
**Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):**
** there is no package called ‘vctrs’**
The version I am running:
> version
_
platform x86_64-apple-darwin17.0
arch x86_64
os darwin17.0
system x86_64, darwin17.0
status
major 4
minor 2.2
year 2022
month 10
day 31
svn rev 83211
language R
version.string R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31)
nickname Innocent and Trusting
> .libPaths()
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library"
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] devtools_2.4.5 usethis_2.1.6
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.9 compiler_4.2.2 later_1.3.0 urlchecker_1.0.1 prettyunits_1.1.1 profvis_0.3.7
[7] remotes_2.4.2 tools_4.2.2 digest_0.6.30 pkgbuild_1.3.1 pkgload_1.3.2 memoise_2.0.1
[13] lifecycle_1.0.3 rlang_1.0.6 shiny_1.7.3 cli_3.4.1 rstudioapi_0.14 curl_4.3.3
[19] fastmap_1.1.0 withr_2.5.0 stringr_1.4.1 fs_1.5.2 htmlwidgets_1.5.4 rprojroot_2.0.3
[25] glue_1.6.2 R6_2.5.1 processx_3.8.0 sessioninfo_1.2.2 purrr_0.3.5 callr_3.7.3
[31] magrittr_2.0.3 promises_1.2.0.1 ps_1.7.2 ellipsis_0.3.2 htmltools_0.5.3 mime_0.12
[37] xtable_1.8-4 httpuv_1.6.6 stringi_1.7.8 miniUI_0.1.1.1 cachem_1.0.6 crayon_1.5.2
> packageVersion('tidyverse')
[1] ‘1.3.2’
EDIT
> install.packages("vctrs")
There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
vctrs 0.5.0 0.5.1 TRUE
Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation? (Yes/no/cancel) Yes
installing the source package ‘vctrs’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/vctrs_0.5.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 959562 bytes (937 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 937 KB
* installing *source* package ‘vctrs’ ...
** package ‘vctrs’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘vctrs’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/vctrs’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘vctrs’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/private/var/folders/83/1hdhv2r97017s9xxs6yj5hl00000gn/T/Rtmp8tahja/downloaded_packages’
> library(vctrs)
Error in library(vctrs) : there is no package called ‘vctrs’
Any help on how to solve it?

Answer 1

By just dowloading the Command Line Tools package from Apple Developers adapted to the current macOS version solved the problem.