Cannot update to latest ggplot2 version in colab R kernel about colabtools

[U-R-dev]

I am also suffering from the same 'rlang' version problem: I cannot load the 'furrr' package that depends on rlang >= 1.0.2.
As a temporary workaround, I could update the 'rlang' package after unloading all dependent packages, and was able to run the 'furrr' package without problems:

# check rlang version at the start
packageVersion('rlang')
[1] ‘1.0.1’

# load furrr package after install.packages('furrr')
library(furrr)
Loading required package: future

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘furrr’ in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
 namespace ‘rlang’ 1.0.1 is already loaded, but >= 1.0.2 is required
... (snip)

# re-install rlang
install.packages('rlang')
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

# check re-installed rlang version
packageVersion('rlang')
[1] ‘1.1.3’

# unload rlang and all dependent packages
unloadNamespace('IRkernel')
unloadNamespace('IRdisplay')
unloadNamespace('repr')
unloadNamespace('pillar')
unloadNamespace('ellipsis')
unloadNamespace('vctrs')
unloadNamespace('lifecycle')
unloadNamespace('htmltools')
unloadNamespace('rlang')

# load re-installed rlang
library(rlang)

# load furrr package again, and it works fine
library(furrr)
Loading required package: future

[JanNehyba]

Same problem:

options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org/"))
install.packages("rlang")
library(rlang)
packageVersion("rlang")

Output:

Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

Error in value[[3L]](cond): Package ‘rlang’ version 1.0.1 cannot be unloaded:
 Error in unloadNamespace(package) : namespace ‘rlang’ is imported by ‘ellipsis’, ‘pillar’, ‘vctrs’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘htmltools’ so cannot be unloaded

Traceback:

1. library(rlang)
2. tryCatch(unloadNamespace(package), error = function(e) {
 .     P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e))) 
 .         paste("Error in", deparse(cc)[1L], ": ")
 .     else "Error : "
 .     stop(gettextf("Package %s version %s cannot be unloaded:\n %s", 
 .         sQuote(package), oldversion, paste0(P, conditionMessage(e), 
 .             "\n")), domain = NA)
 . })
3. tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
4. tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
5. value[[3L]](cond)
6. stop(gettextf("Package %s version %s cannot be unloaded:\n %s", 
 .     sQuote(package), oldversion, paste0(P, conditionMessage(e), 
 .         "\n")), domain = NA)

[silasbergen]

Well, within the past hour, the kernel seems to have updated to the point that rlang version 1.1.3 is the default installed version, and ggplot2 version 3.4.4 (2nd-to-last most recent version) is installed. Don't know what happened to cause the kernel to revert back to an ancient version of rlang/tidyverse, but it seems to be okay now?