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Cannot install knitr

Dear All,

I am trying to install the package

knitr

but getting the following error:

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Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/stringi/libs/stringi.so':
  libicui18n.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error : unable to load R code in package ?knitr?
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?knitr?
* removing ?/usr/lib64/R/library/knitr?
* restoring previous ?/usr/lib64/R/library/knitr?
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I suppose that the problem is that knitr expects

libicu-56

installed, but it is

libicu-57

that is installed.

Any help?

Thanks in advance,

Paul