Message-ID: <455197D9-F5A1-4C4B-BA9A-3BA5477A335F@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-02-19T10:22:59Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Permission issues running R in terminal
In-Reply-To: <CABFfbXs01-+wu49igyKukBCfr0iC_+-=fRZRFWvBv=ebwo=yEA@mail.gmail.com>
To be precise: execute access, not write access.
However, neither that nor deleting the dir gives the exact "Operation not permitted" error.
-pd
> 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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