On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@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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