Error in R: (Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran)

Question

I\'m trying to install the \'yaml\' and \'stringi\' packages in R-Studio, and it keeps giving me these errors:

> install.packages(\"stringi\")
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Answer 1

Struggled with this issue today, solved it for now by first downloading the windows binary and then installing e.g.

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/stringi_1.1.1.zip", repos =NULL)

Just go to https://cran.r-project.org/ and then R Binaries/Windows/contrib and copy the url as argument to install.packages()