New job gave me a fresh Windows laptop where I am struggling (to say the very least) to set up a fresh R environment. Specifically, when developing a package, the commmand Install and Restart exits abruptly due to permission issues on a specific .dll file.
==> Rcmd.exe INSTALL --no-multiarch --with-keep.source --install-tests curl
* installing to library 'C:/R/R-Library'
* installing *source* package 'curl' ...
ERROR: cannot remove earlier installation, is it in use?
* removing 'C:/R/R-Library/curl'
* restoring previous 'C:/R/R-Library/curl'
Warning in file.copy(lp, dirname(pkgdir), recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
problem copying C:\R\R-Library\00LOCK-curl\curl\libs\x64\curl.dll to C:\R\R-Library\curl\libs\x64\curl.dll: Permission denied
Exited with status 1.
As a first attempt to ameliorate the issue, I've moved both my R installation and library at C:/. This obviously seems not to be enough.
> .libPaths()
[1] "C:/R/R-Library" "C:/R/R-4.0.3/library"
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.3 tools_4.0.3
I am kind of lost as to where to look next. As a last shot in the dark I've tried to run RStudio with Admin right with no luck.