19.9 - rmarkdown installation error about happy-git-with-r HOT 7 CLOSED

When you say this:

Installing "rmarkdown" through rstudio GUI

do you literally mean the Packages tab in what is usually the lower right pane?

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I specifically noticed the error when students accepted this prompt (image pulled from google):

I believe the results of accepting this prompt are different from installing a package via the "Packages" tab, as accepting the prompt results in a popup, rather than running the command in the console. The process is actually on youtube, except the error closes out the "installing packages" popup window so the error cannot be read.

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Thanks. Another question:

errors due to dependency installation "base64enc".

What does this mean? rmarkdown installation fails because base64enc is not installed or is not up-to-date or cannot be installed or ?? Or is that the error that you are unable to read?

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So I believe this may be the exact error, where base64enc is installed as a dependency. (This is just from what I was able to read as the error message flew by on the screen.) But it seems that for some reason the dependency does not install in the pop-up window--but it installs when you type the install.packages() command into the console.

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Thanks @samhinshaw! Do you remember how many times you and @oganm saw this on Tuesday? Was it always on a specific OS?

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I saw the error twice on windows machines, and I think I saw it once on a mac, but I may be misremembering that.

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Thanks for all the answers. @kevinushey thinks this is either due to a recent, temporary glitch with Windows binary packages on CRAN or something that is hopefully fixed in RStudio (by tomorrow). I will leave this open in case we have more trouble. But if time passes and all is well, we will just close and let it by a mystery.

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