Hello,

I am currently trying to install AnnotationHub but I am running into problems. I use R 4.0.4, renv (version 0.15.4) and BiocVersion 3.12.

When I run BiocManager::install("AnnotationHub"), I get the following error:

Warning message:
This project is configured to use R version '4.1.1', but '4.0.4' is currently being used. 
* installing *source* package ‘AnnotationHub’ ...
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘AnnotationHub’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
 namespace ‘Rcpp’ 1.0.6 is already loaded, but >= 1.0.7 is required
Error: loading failed
Execution halted

My .libPaths() look something like this:

[1] "/test_renv/renv/library/R-4.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
[2] "/usr/prog/R/4.0.4/lib64/R/library"

I thought that the error message was very straight forward and reinstalled Rcpp (install.packages("Rcpp")). Then I ran packageVersion("Rcpp") which returned 1.0.8.3. I restarted my R session and reran BiocManager::install("AnnotationHub"), but the exact same error message occured. Also if I run library(Rcpp) before installing AnnotationHub.

When I run sessionInfo() after restart, it looks like this:

R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/prog/OpenBLAS/0.2.20-GCC-6.4.0-2.28/lib/libopenblas_haswellp-r0.2.20.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8       
 [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C              
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.4 tools_4.0.4    renv_0.15.4

I would greatly appreciated any insights, why this might occur and how I can fix it.

(I have also posted the issue on StackOverflow, because I think that this is not necessary a Bioconductor related problem)