I need to use R version 3.3.3. Is there a way to install packages successfully? I am unable to install any packages

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I need to use R 3.3.3 for SPSS Modeler 18.1. I am unable to install any packages in this version of R.

I have a version of R 3.5.1 and am successfully using it with RStudio. I need to use R 3.3.3 for SPSS Modeler 18.1. I am unable to install any packages. I tried update.packages(), install.packages with type="source" or "both", tried devtools, but can't install devtools either. I believe there's a binary and source mismatch that needs_compilation, but can't seem to figure out how to fix it. This is happening for every package I can think of that I normally use: dplyr, tidyverse, ggplot2, forecast, etc etc.

install.packages('dplyr')
library('dplyr')
install.packages('pillar')
install.packages('devtools')

> install.packages('dplyr')
also installing the dependency ‘rlang’


  There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
      binary source needs_compilation
rlang  0.2.0  0.3.1              TRUE
dplyr  0.7.4  0.7.8              TRUE

  Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/rlang_0.2.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 754726 bytes (737 KB)
downloaded 737 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/dplyr_0.7.4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2897358 bytes (2.8 MB)
downloaded 2.8 MB

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’
package ‘dplyr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘dplyr’

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\nipa.onulak\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7\downloaded_packages
> library('dplyr')
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  there is no package called ‘pillar’
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’
> install.packages('pillar')
also installing the dependencies ‘fansi’, ‘rlang’


  There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
       binary source needs_compilation
fansi   0.2.2  0.4.0              TRUE
rlang   0.2.0  0.3.1              TRUE
pillar  1.2.1  1.3.1             FALSE

  Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/fansi_0.2.2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 141745 bytes (138 KB)
downloaded 138 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/rlang_0.2.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 754726 bytes (737 KB)
downloaded 737 KB

package ‘fansi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\nipa.onulak\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘pillar’

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/pillar_1.3.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 103972 bytes (101 KB)
downloaded 101 KB

ERROR: dependency 'rlang' is not available for package 'pillar'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library/pillar'

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘C:\Users\nipa.onulak\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7\downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.3\library" C:\Users\NIPA~1.ONU\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7/downloaded_packages/pillar_1.3.1.tar.gz' had status 1 
2: In install.packages("pillar") :
  installation of package ‘pillar’ had non-zero exit status
> install.packages('devtools')
also installing the dependencies ‘git2r’, ‘pkgbuild’, ‘pkgload’, ‘rcmdcheck’


  There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
          binary source needs_compilation
git2r     0.21.0 0.24.0              TRUE
rcmdcheck  1.2.1  1.3.2             FALSE
devtools  1.13.5  2.0.1             FALSE

  Binaries will be installed
Package which is only available in source form, and may need
  compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘pkgload’
  These will not be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/git2r_0.21.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 3022652 bytes (2.9 MB)
downloaded 2.9 MB

package ‘git2r’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\nipa.onulak\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7\downloaded_packages
installing the source packages ‘pkgbuild’, ‘rcmdcheck’, ‘devtools’

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/pkgbuild_1.0.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 25264 bytes (24 KB)
downloaded 24 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/rcmdcheck_1.3.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1408582 bytes (1.3 MB)
downloaded 1.3 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/devtools_2.0.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 388953 bytes (379 KB)
downloaded 379 KB

* installing *source* package 'pkgbuild' ...
** package 'pkgbuild' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'callr', details:
  call: loadNamespace(name)
  error: there is no package called 'debugme'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'pkgbuild'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library/pkgbuild'
ERROR: dependency 'pkgbuild' is not available for package 'rcmdcheck'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library/rcmdcheck'
ERROR: dependencies 'pkgbuild', 'pkgload', 'rcmdcheck' are not available for package 'devtools'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library/devtools'

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘C:\Users\nipa.onulak\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7\downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.3\library" C:\Users\NIPA~1.ONU\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7/downloaded_packages/pkgbuild_1.0.2.tar.gz' had status 1 
2: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘pkgbuild’ had non-zero exit status
3: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.3\library" C:\Users\NIPA~1.ONU\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7/downloaded_packages/rcmdcheck_1.3.2.tar.gz' had status 1 
4: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘rcmdcheck’ had non-zero exit status
5: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.3.3\library" C:\Users\NIPA~1.ONU\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcbgyh7/downloaded_packages/devtools_2.0.1.tar.gz' had status 1 
6: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

Answer 1

@MrFlick, thank you. I was able to navigate and ended up using this site " https://www.r-bloggers.com/using-old-versions-of-r-packages/ ", and used a link from that post for binaries because I was having a lot of issues with that " https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/ ", and code example for package devtools: install.packages(" https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/devtools_1.13.5.zip ", repos=NULL, type="source"). It all seems to work and load the libraries :). Thank you for the direction!