How to update rlang in R?

Question

[Amr]

How to update rlang in R with version 1.0.5?

[LDT]

I hope that this one works

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_version("rlang", version = "1.0.5", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

[Amr]

I got that error:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘usethis’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): namespace ‘rlang’ 1.0.3 is already loaded, but >= 1.0.5 is required Failed with error: ‘package ‘usethis’ could not be loaded’ Error in install_version("rlang", version = "1.0.5", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org") : could not find function "install_version"

[LDT]

You need to install first the devtools package :) I am updating the answer

[Amr]

It doesnot work

[Basti]

Could you be more precise than "it does not work" ? At least you should give any error message you have

[Amr]

Error: package ‘usethis’ could not be loaded

So, I installed usethis with install.packages ('usethis')

I got that error:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Amr/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2/usethis_2.1.6.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 817921 bytes (798 KB) downloaded 798 KB

package ‘usethis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUvSZ2w\downloaded_packages

[Basti]

Package usethis is now installed, this is not an error message (you can check with library("usethis")). You can now try to reinstall rlang with the method of @LDT

[Amr]

It did not work so I deleted R, RStudio and some files inside storing drives and I reinstalled everything again then it worked.