On 19 Feb 2024, at 10:43 , Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 11:57?PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:
I wanted to see the options to R CMD INSTALL, and was surprised to see
this output:
$ R CMD INSTALL --help
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
Error in tools:::.install_packages() :
current working directory cannot be ascertained
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Operation not permitted
I installed R from CRAN, and am not running the current version: I'm
still on 4.3.1, with OS also kind of old: Monterey 12.7.3, so I was
surprised by this. Is anyone else seeing it?
This happens when you don't have write access in the current dir:
mkdir /tmp/test
cd /tmp/test
chmod 0 .
R CMD INSTALL --help
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