Getting errors when installing R packages manually

Question

I am new to R. My work laptop has all sorts of problems. I can't seem to install R via RStudio so I decided to try to install the packages manually using the folders just as I do in Python. Here are the steps I followed:

I ran .libPaths() in RStudio to determine where the packages are installed. It returned the following:

[1] "\\\\lbsjsh-mp-ns1/user$/H/R/win-library/3.5"                                                                 
[2] "C:/ProgramData/App-V/9053-3BB61A6E2F38/Root/R/R-3.5.0/library"

I noticed that packages are in the 1st path. I then navigated to the following site:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/index.html

I downloaded: r-devel: ggplot2_3.3.6.zip

I then extracted the folder into the following directory: "\\lbsjsh-mp-ns1/user$/H/R/win-library/3.5"

When I run library(ggplot2) in RStudio I get the following error:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’ in rbind(info, getNamespaceInfo(env, "S3methods")):
 number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 2)
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘ggplot2’ was built under R version 4.3.0 

I even tried to install it using the zip file by typing the following in RStudio:

install.packages("C:\Users\H\Downloads\ggplot2_3.3.6.zip", repos = NULL, type="binary")

But I get the following error:

Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string starting ""C:\U"

Does anyone know why this could be?. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Download the .zip file for the package from https://cran.r-project.org/
2. Open RGui
3. Packages -> Install package(s) from local file(s)
4. Navigate to the desired .zip file and click OK
5. Wait a short while whilst the package installs