Devtools: error installing dev version object ‘col_align’ is not exported by 'namespace:crayon'

[tbates]

I was able to install install_github("hadley/devtools") but got the error below. On re-launching R, devtools loaded (packageVersion("devtools") ‘1.13.3.9000’)) so it seems to be a one-time thing?

• installing source package ‘devtools’ ...
  ...
  
  
  
  • DONE (devtools)
    
    Reloading installed devtools
    
    Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘devtools’:
    
    object ‘col_align’ is not exported by 'namespace:crayon'
  
  

[nibrivia]

Similar issue here. Could not install.packages("tidyverse") with the error above. Installing github version of crayon solved it.

[gaborcsardi]

For the record: you don't need the GitHub version of crayon, the latest version on CRAN is fine.

[nibrivia]

So, I could not get that to work minutes before writing the message. Is this recent enough of an update to not have propagated through the mirrors?

[gaborcsardi]

2 months old, and definitely has col_align: https://github.com/cran/crayon/blob/c1b2524e6e7d0e666e425d31424f772647ed4fab/NAMESPACE#L23

I guess you haven't restarted R, so the old version was still loaded.

[nibrivia]

Huh, I thought I did... I'll let you know if this comes back up then...

[gaborcsardi]

Maybe it was something else, e.g. you have two versions installed at different places. I can only guess from here....

[omarbenites]

I had the same issue a couple of weeks ago, because I was working with an older version of crayon (col_align was not included in it). I re-installed install_packages("crayon), and it's sorted out.

[mbaradas]

@omarbenites comment on Dec 23, 2017 worked for me. "re-installed install_packages("crayon), and it's sorted out."

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