I’m (very) new to R, and I’ve been trying to download the DescTools package since it’s a dependent for another package I need. I’m stuck using R version 4.1.1 because the newer versions aren’t compatible with a few other packages I need. Since the version of DescTools on CRAN is for a newer version of R, I can’t just use install.packages(). I’ve been using R Studio.

I’ve tried downloading older versions of DescTools by installing the tar.gz file and using > install.packages(“~/Documents/DescTools_0.99.32.tar”, repos = NULL, type = ‘SOURCE’), and by using require(devtools)
install_version(“DescTools”, version = “0.99.34”, repos = “http://cran.us.r-project.org”), but no matter how I try to download it, I receive a non-zero exit status error. I’ll paste the output below, but I believe that the root of the problem is the following error: “symbol not found in flat namespace ‘hoeffd‘”
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a solution to this. Thanks for any help!

Full output:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘DescTools’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, …):
unable to load shared object ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/00LOCK-DescTools/00new/DescTools/libs/DescTools.so’:
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/00LOCK-DescTools/00new/DescTools/libs/DescTools.so, 0x0006): symbol not found in flat namespace ‘hoeffd‘
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed

• removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/DescTools’
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘/Users/xDev57x/Documents/DescTools_0.99.32.tar’ had non-zero exit status