I have a student in a university course who is unable to install the course package from github with RStudio here is her sessioninfo:
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=French_France.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1 yaml_2.2.0
and here is the output of the install command:
> install_github("ScPoEcon/ScPoEconometrics")
Downloading GitHub repo ScPoEcon/ScPoEconometrics@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ScPoEcon/ScPoEconometrics/zipball/master
Installing ScPoEconometrics
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-35~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \
"C:/Users/cbuzy/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpa2Rw7x/devtools7e043f65f74/ScPoEcon-ScPoEconometrics-5553b41" \
--library="C:/Users/cbuzy/Documents/R/win-library/3.5" --install-tests
* installing *source* package 'ScPoEconometrics' ...
Warning in file.copy(instdir, lockdir, recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
problème lors de la copie de C:\Users\cbuzy\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\ScPoEconometrics\CITATION vers C:\Users\cbuzy\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\00LOCK-ScPoEcon-ScPoEconometrics-5553b41\ScPoEconometrics\CITATION: Permission denied
Warning in file.copy(instdir, lockdir, recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
problème lors de la copie de C:\Users\cbuzy\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\ScPoEconometrics\datasets\corr50.csv vers C:\Users\cbuzy\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\00LOCK-ScPoEcon-ScPoEconometrics-5553b41\ScPoEconometrics\datasets\corr50.csv: Permission denied
... and so on for all the files in the installation. it ends with
Warning in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") :
impossible d'ouvrir le fichier 'C:/Users/cbuzy/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ScPoEconometrics/DESCRIPTION' : Permission denied
Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") :
impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'ScPoEconometrics'
* removing 'C:/Users/cbuzy/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ScPoEconometrics'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/cbuzy/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ScPoEconometrics'
In R CMD INSTALL
Installation failed: Command failed (1)
at some point is suggested to delete the referenced lock file. upon doing that here R went completely crazy (even the GUI), so that didn't work. i understand there is a permissions problem. How to address that?
