I'm trying to install the dev version of tidyr. When I try devtools::install_github("tidyverse/tidyr") or remotes::install_github("tidyverse/tidyr"), I get the following error:
> devtools::install_github("tidyverse/tidyr")
Downloading GitHub repo tidyverse/tidyr@master
Downloading GitHub repo r-lib/vctrs@master
These packages have more recent versions available.
Which would you like to update?
1: All
2: CRAN packages only
3: None
4: rlang (0.3.4 -> 18856f22a...) [GitHub]
5: ellipsis (0.1.0 -> 9908b24a2...) [GitHub]
Enter one or more numbers separated by spaces, or an empty line to cancel
1: 1
rlang (0.3.4 -> 18856f22a...) [GitHub]
ellipsis (0.1.0 -> 9908b24a2...) [GitHub]
Downloading GitHub repo r-lib/rlang@master
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpYDrYNh\remotes96bc1c295445\r-lib-rlang-18856f2/DESCRIPTION' ...
- preparing 'rlang': (2s)
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
- cleaning src
- installing the package to process help pages (1.3s)
- cleaning src (27.6s)
- checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (445ms)
- checking for empty or unneeded directories (878ms)
- building 'rlang_0.3.4.9002.tar.gz'
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
ERROR: failed to lock directory 'C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5' for modifying
Try removing 'C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/00LOCK-rlang'
In R CMD INSTALL
Error in i.p(...) :
(converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpYDrYNh/file96bc24b12ee3/rlang_0.3.4.9002.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
I remove 00LOCK-rlang as suggested by the warning and try again. As before, I get asked which packages I want to update and I select All. This time I get the following error when it attempts to update rlang:
installing to C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/rlang/libs/x64
Error in file.copy(files, dest, overwrite = TRUE) :
(converted from warning) problem copying .\rlang.dll to C:\Users\owner\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll: Permission denied
* removing 'C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/rlang'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/owner/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/rlang'
Error in file.copy(lp, dirname(pkgdir), recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
(converted from warning) problem copying C:\Users\owner\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\00LOCK-rlang\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll to C:\Users\owner\Documents\R\win-library\3.5\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll: Permission denied
Execution halted
In R CMD INSTALL
Error in i.p(...) :
(converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpYDrYNh/file96bc74433a2d/rlang_0.3.4.9002.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
Session info after second attempt:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.1 rstudioapi_0.10 magrittr_1.5 usethis_1.5.0 devtools_2.0.2 pkgload_1.0.2 R6_2.4.0 rlang_0.3.4 tools_3.5.2 pkgbuild_1.0.3
[11] sessioninfo_1.1.1 cli_1.1.0 withr_2.1.2 remotes_2.0.4 yaml_2.2.0 assertthat_0.2.1 digest_0.6.18 rprojroot_1.3-2 crayon_1.3.4 processx_3.3.0
[21] callr_3.2.0 fs_1.2.7 ps_1.3.0 curl_3.3 rpart_4.1-15 testthat_2.0.1 glue_1.3.1 memoise_1.1.0 compiler_3.5.2 desc_1.2.0
[31] backports_1.1.4 prettyunits_1.0.2
Using source("https://install-github.me/r-lib/rlang") solved the problem but why did devtools:: and remotes::install_github() fail?
I experienced this issue as well. Note the [...]\rlang\libs\x64\rlang.dll: Permission denied. The current R-session is not permitted to access these files. To circumvent this, open Rgui.exe by either searching for Rgui in Windows Search via Win+Q, or by the C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin\x64\Rgui.exe. Right-click and press Run as administrator, and then do the same thing, as you did before.
You could also run RStudio in Administrative mode.