Installation v1.10 fails due to lifecycle dependency, but I have lifecycle v1.04 installed

[sheepworrier]

> install.packages("pillar")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/PerryD/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
       binary source needs_compilation
pillar  1.9.0 1.10.0             FALSE

installing the source package ‘pillar’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/pillar_1.10.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 179892 bytes (175 KB)
downloaded 175 KB

* installing *source* package 'pillar' ...
** package 'pillar' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : 
  there is no package called 'lifecycle'
Calls: <Anonymous> ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart -> doWithOneRestart
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'pillar'
* removing 'C:/Users/PerryD/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4/pillar'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘pillar’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘C:\Users\PerryD\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpwZrsiY\downloaded_packages’

R version 4.4.1

[krlmlr]

Interesting. Can you load or attach the lifecycle package, perhaps with library(lifecycle) ?

[sheepworrier]

Yes that works with a small warning about other packages as I am slightly behind on the latest R version:

> library(lifecycle)
Warning messages:
1: package ‘odbc’ was built under R version 4.4.2 
2: package ‘lifecycle’ was built under R version 4.4.2

[krlmlr]

The pillar package now has been built for Windows and can be installed as a binary. Does this work better now? Please try in a fresh R session.