I cannot require arrayQualityMetrics although I've downloaded it. What should I do?

library("arrayQualityMetrics")
# Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘arrayQualityMetrics’:
#.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'httr', details:
# call: options()
#error: Value of SET_STRING_ELT() must be a 'CHARSXP' not a 'NULL'

sessionInfo( )
#R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
#Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)

#Matrix products: default

#locale:
#[1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252  LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252    LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252
#[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=C                     

#attached base packages:
#[1] stats4    parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

#other attached packages:
 #[1] pd.mogene.2.1.st_3.14.1 DBI_1.1.1               RSQLite_2.2.8           oligo_1.56.0           
 #[5] Biostrings_2.60.2       GenomeInfoDb_1.28.4     XVector_0.32.0          IRanges_2.26.0         
 #[9] S4Vectors_0.30.2        Biobase_2.52.0          oligoClasses_1.54.0     BiocGenerics_0.38.0    
#[13] knitr_1.36              readxl_1.3.1           

#loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 #[1] MatrixGenerics_1.4.3        bit64_4.0.5                 splines_4.1.1               foreach_1.5.1              
 #[5] BiocManager_1.30.16         affy_1.70.0                 highr_0.9                   blob_1.2.2                 
 #[9] GenomeInfoDbData_1.2.6      cellranger_1.1.0            yaml_2.2.1                  gcrma_2.64.0               
#[13] pillar_1.6.4                lattice_0.20-44             digest_0.6.28               GenomicRanges_1.44.0       
#[17] htmltools_0.5.2             preprocessCore_1.54.0       Matrix_1.3-4                pkgconfig_2.0.3            
#[21] affxparser_1.64.1           zlibbioc_1.38.0             xtable_1.8-4                svglite_2.0.0              
#[25] affyio_1.62.0               ff_4.0.4                    tibble_3.1.5                ellipsis_0.3.2             
#[29] cachem_1.0.6                SummarizedExperiment_1.22.0 cli_3.0.1                   magrittr_2.0.1             
#[33] crayon_1.4.1                memoise_2.0.0               evaluate_0.14               fansi_0.5.0                
#[37] tools_4.1.1                 lifecycle_1.0.1             matrixStats_0.61.0          affyPLM_1.68.0             
#[41] DelayedArray_0.18.0         compiler_4.1.1              systemfonts_1.0.3           rlang_0.4.11               
#[45] grid_4.1.1                  RCurl_1.98-1.5              iterators_1.0.13            bitops_1.0-7               
#[49] rmarkdown_2.11              codetools_0.2-18            R6_2.5.1                    fastmap_1.1.0              
#[53] bit_4.0.4                   utf8_1.2.2                  Rcpp_1.0.7                  vctrs_0.3.8                
#[57] xfun_0.26

When installing it I get

BiocManager::install("arrayQualityMetrics")
#'getOption("repos")' replaces Bioconductor standard repositories, see '?repositories' for details

#replacement repositories:
#   CRAN: https://cran.rstudio.com/

#Bioconductor version 3.13 (BiocManager 1.30.16), R 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
#Installation paths not writeable, unable to update packages
#   path: C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.1/library
#  packages:
#    lattice, mgcv, nlme, survival
#Old packages: 'rlang', 'xfun'
#Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: 
a

#  There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
#      binary source needs_compilation
#rlang 0.4.11 0.4.12              TRUE
#xfun    0.26   0.27              TRUE

#trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/rlang_0.4.11.zip'
#Content type 'application/zip' length 1201275 bytes (1.1 MB)
#downloaded 1.1 MB

#trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/xfun_0.26.zip'
#Content type 'application/zip' length 358998 bytes (350 KB)
#downloaded 350 KB

#package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
#Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’
#Warning: restored ‘rlang’
#package ‘xfun’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
#Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘xfun’
#Warning: restored ‘xfun’

#The downloaded binary packages are in
#   C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpM50TZw\downloaded_packages
#Warning messages:
#1: package(s) not installed when version(s) same as current; use `force = TRUE` to re-install: 'arrayQualityMetrics' 
#2: In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) :
#  problem copying C:\Users\Usuario\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\00LOCK\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll to C:\Users\Usuario\Documents\R\win-#library\4.1\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll: Permission denied
#3: In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) :
#  problem copying C:\Users\Usuario\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\00LOCK\xfun\libs\x64\xfun.dll to C:\Users\Usuario\Documents\R\win-#library\4.1\xfun\libs\x64\xfun.dll: Permission denied

It worked! Thank you!

I think the most critical looking problem is shown by the part that says:

# Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘arrayQualityMetrics’:
#.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'httr', details:
# call: options()
#error: Value of SET_STRING_ELT() must be a 'CHARSXP' not a 'NULL'

This suggests to me that there's something wrong with the httr package, which is in turn preventing you loading arrayQualityMetrics.

The first thing I would try is to make sure I've got a working copy of httr by installing the package again using install.packages("httr").

Then restart R and try library("arrayQualityMetrics") again.