Unusual Error Loading tidyverse

Below is some output from one of my students. I have never seen this error and tried a few things (updating packages for one) but am at a loss to help further. Would appreciate suggestions that I can pass along.

Here is the error. I tried an install.packages(?xml2?) which appeared to complete but the error persists.

library("tidyverse")

Error: package or namespace load failed for ?tidyverse? in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
DLL ?xml2? not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?

Here is the sessionInfo()

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=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C  
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252  

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.7 cellranger_1.1.0 pillar_1.6.2 compiler_4.1.1 dbplyr_2.1.1 forcats_0.5.1 tools_4.1.1  
[8] jsonlite_1.7.2 lubridate_1.7.10 lifecycle_1.0.0 tibble_3.1.4 gtable_0.3.0 pkgconfig_2.0.3 rlang_0.4.11  
[15] reprex_2.0.1 DBI_1.1.1 haven_2.4.3 withr_2.4.2 dplyr_1.0.7 httr_1.4.2 fs_1.5.0  
[22] generics_0.1.0 vctrs_0.3.8 hms_1.1.0 grid_4.1.1 tidyselect_1.1.1 glue_1.4.2 R6_2.5.1  
[29] fansi_0.5.0 readxl_1.3.1 tzdb_0.1.2 tidyr_1.1.3 ggplot2_3.3.5 purrr_0.3.4 readr_2.0.1  
[36] modelr_0.1.8 magrittr_2.0.1 backports_1.2.1 scales_1.1.1 ellipsis_0.3.2 assertthat_0.2.1 colorspace_2.0-2
[43] utf8_1.2.2 munsell_0.5.0 broom_0.7.9 crayon_1.4.1