[R] Tidyverse package error

Christopher W. Ryan cry@n @end|ng |rom b|ngh@mton@edu
Mon Oct 20 15:37:42 CEST 2025


There may be more to the story than we've been given.

What is the entire output when you open R and run this command:

library(tidyverse)

And what is the entire output when you then run

sessionInfo()


--Chris Ryan

Davis Willsie via R-help wrote:
> I have the tidyverse and tidyr packages both installed and running on R
> studio and I even ran the library command, and it worked, but there's when
> I try and run a tidyverse command I get the error,
> Error in pivot_wider(BirthData, names_from = OSHPDID, values_form = Rate) :
> could not find function "pivot_wider"
> Which shouldn't be possible because I have Tidyverse installed, and it runs
> when I use the library function. I know that all of my inputs work because
> I've tested the code amongst my peers, who packages do work and the code
> works for them, just not for me. I believe it's an installation problem, is
> there anyway I can fix this error?
>  Thank you!
> 
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