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

r package ubuntu-14.04
MYaseen208 picture MYaseen208 · Aug 11, 2015 · Viewed 36.1k times · Source

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

I already tried the methods given here but could not solve the problem.

Answer

Shixiang Wang picture Shixiang Wang · May 6, 2019

I was facing the same error and I restarted R session, it worked for me.

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