I try to install the readat package but keep getting an error about the pathological dependency. when I try to load the package into R it says the package doesn't exist.

> BiocManager::install("readat")
Bioconductor version 3.9 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Installing package(s) 'readat'
Warning: dependency ‘pathological’ is not available
trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.9/bioc/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/readat_1.10.0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3279127 bytes (3.1 MB)
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downloaded 3.1 MB



The downloaded binary packages are in
    /var/folders/hb/hwgqx_5x2zlfysn95wgydd380000gn/T//Rtmpf1DnDX/downloaded_packages
> library(readat)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘readat’ in namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, :
 lazy-load database '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library/magrittr/R/magrittr.rdb' is corrupt
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,  :
  restarting interrupted promise evaluation
2: In namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,  :
  internal error -3 in R_decompress1

You will have to reach out to CRAN. According to the landing page the package has been removed https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pathological/index.html

You could go to the archive link on the above page to install the package manually but using install or install.packages will not work.