Unable to install R package due to XML dependency mismatch

Question

I launched R in my command-line and typed the following:

install.packages(\"XML\")

After selecting a mirror site, I saw the following outpu

Answer 1

You explained what is wrong and that helps.

XML package documentation in here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/index.html

Pay attetion to where it says You are trying to use a version 2.* edition of libxml but an incompatible library.

What system are you using? I use OSX and when I had a similar issue I did run

brew install libxml2

and then it worked

I also see you use R 3.0+ and that should be very compatible.