Unable to install Tidyverse. Broom issues - r

Question

Whenever I try to install tidyverse in R v 3.6.2
I receive the following error message:
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/daeb/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘broom’
There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
broom 0.5.3 0.5.4 FALSE
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/tidyverse_1.3.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 440101 bytes (429 KB)
downloaded 429 KB
package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\daeb\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuWXq4I\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘broom’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/broom_0.5.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1228129 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB
* installing *source* package 'broom' ...
** package 'broom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Fejl i loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
there is no package called 'zeallot'
Kald: <Anonymous> ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart -> doWithOneRestart
Kørsel stoppet
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'broom'
* removing 'C:/Users/daeb/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/broom'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘broom’ had non-zero exit status
I have tried reinstalling both R and Rstudio but it does not solve the problem. I tried installing Rtools, but it does not work either. It appears I have to solve the source/binary issue with broom but I do not know how.

Answer 1

As #hplieninger suggests, the proximal problem is that the installation of broom is looking for the zeallot package, which isn't installed:
there is no package called 'zeallot'
You should try manually installing the zeallot package (install.packages("zeallot")) and then try installing tidyverse again.
It might also help to say "no" when R asks you whether you want to install the packages with more recent source-code versions from source rather than binary. (The worst thing that can happen is that you end up with slightly older versions of some packages.)
However it's surprising that this requirement comes up. Are you using install.packages("tidyverse")? Are you specifying something like dependencies=TRUE?
Because according to the CRAN index pages
The current version of broom (0.5.4, apparently the same version that R is trying to install for you) doesn't directly import zeallot: it Depends only on R and
Imports: backports, dplyr, generics (≥ 0.0.2), methods, nlme, purrr, reshape2, stringr, tibble, tidyr
The current version of zeallot shouldn't obviously be needed. The packages that use it are:
Reverse imports: completejourney, graphTweets, ipumsr, keras, mlflow, statsExpressions
Reverse suggests: listarrays, SDMtune, vctrs