Cannot load plm package after installing it? - r

Question

Hello, could someone help me with this? I install the plm package, however, when I try to load it R gives me an error:
library(plm)
Output:
Error in library(plm) : there is no package called ‘plm’"
About the installation of the package that is the output:
install.packages("plm")
Output:
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/be_al/OneDrive - UvA/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘collapse’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
collapse 1.5.3 1.7.6 TRUE
plm 2.4-1 2.6-1 FALSE
Binaries will be installed
tentando a URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/collapse_1.5.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 3842937 bytes (3.7 MB)
downloaded 3.7 MB
package ‘collapse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\be_al\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4gBL5q\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘plm’
tentando a URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/plm_2.6-1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1652371 bytes (1.6 MB)
downloaded 1.6 MB
* installing *source* package 'plm' ...
** package 'plm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** data
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
namespace 'collapse' 1.5.3 is being loaded, but >= 1.6.0 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execução interrompida
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'plm'
* removing 'C:/Users/be_al/OneDrive - UvA/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/plm'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘plm’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\be_al\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4gBL5q\downloaded_packages’
3. From previous posts here I tried:
install.packages("plm", dependencies = TRUE)
but it still didn't work for me. And I also tried installing and loading multiple times but always get the same error.

Answer 1

Try:
install.packages("plm",type="win.binary")
This must work