How do i resolve this error when installing tidyverse on MacOS?
11:16 27 Jan 2026

when i run

install.packages("tidyverse")

R returns the following

also installing the dependencies ‘broom’, ‘modelr’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/broom_1.0.11.tgz'
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/modelr_0.1.11.tgz'
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/tidyverse_2.0.0.tgz'
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/var/folders/9t/82sm5m050mn69kjjkyxv1l5r0000gn/T//RtmpvybYFj/downloaded_packages/broom_1.0.11.tgz'

Error: file ‘/var/folders/9t/82sm5m050mn69kjjkyxv1l5r0000gn/T//RtmpvybYFj/downloaded_packages/broom_1.0.11.tgz’ is not a macOS binary package

In addition: Warning messages:
1: In .rs.downloadFile(url = c("https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/broom_1.0.11.tgz",  :
  cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/broom_1.0.11.tgz': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
2: In .rs.downloadFile(url = c("https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/broom_1.0.11.tgz",  :
  some files were not downloaded
3: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 

I can't seem to fix this issue and get R to install tidyverse.

r tidyverse rstudio r-package