Installing R Packages Error in readRDS(file) : error reading from connection

Question

Whenever I try to install any package in R on Ubuntu 14.04, I\'m getting the following error:

Error in readRDS(file) : error reading from connection
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Answer 1

I was getting error running install.packages("mice")

1. I tried everything suggested by user1436187.
2. After this I tried running update.packages(). received same error. I also got an error message where it was unable to run some command due to permissions.
3. I closed my current session of R and restarted it again as an administrator.
4. Ran command which was giving error earlier install.packages("mice")

This worked for me.