R Error: Package or Namespace Load Failed for ggplot2 & data.table
This page explains how to handle the error message package or namespace load failed for ggplot2 and for data.table in R.
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Fixing the Error: package or namespace load failed for ggplot2 and for data.table
The following R programming code explains how to solve problems with the error package or namespace load failed for ggplot2 and for data.table.
This error may occur when using the ggplot2 and data.table packages in combination with functions of the Rcpp package.
For that reason, the error message is often fixed by removing and re-installing ggplot2 and data.table as shown below:
remove.packages(c("ggplot2", "data.table")) # Remove and re-install packages install.packages("Rcpp", dependencies = TRUE) install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE) install.packages("data.table", dependencies = TRUE)
After installing the packages, you also need to reload the packages using the library function:
library("Rcpp") library("ggplot2") library("data.table")
After running the previous lines, you may try to run your R code again. In case the problem is still not fixed, you may have a look at this thread on Stack Overflow. The thread discusses this issue in some more detail.
Video, Further Resources & Summary
In case you want to see further explanations on the R code of this tutorial, you may have a look at the following video of the Statistics Globe YouTube channel. I illustrate the fix of this article in the video:
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Please also have a look at some of the related tutorials of my website:
- Beginner Tutorial for the ggplot2 Package
- Handling Warnings & Errors in R (Cheat Sheet)
- The R Programming Language
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Hi
I was getting this error, when I tried to call library(ggplot2)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
namespace ‘rlang’ 0.4.11 is being loaded, but >= 1.0.0 is required
Then I followed these below mentioned steps, still I am getting the same error
remove.packages(c(“ggplot2”, “data.table”)) # Remove and re-install packages
install.packages(“Rcpp”, dependencies = TRUE)
install.packages(“ggplot2”, dependencies = TRUE)
install.packages(“data.table”, dependencies = TRUE)
After installing the packages, you also need to reload the packages using the library function:
library(“Rcpp”)
library(“ggplot2”)
library(“data.table”)
Hi Shrinka,
Sorry for the late response. Do you still have the same problem or have you already fixed it?
Regards,
Cansu