[R-sig-Debian] permission problems -xml2

[Tomas Kalibera]

If you haven't done that already, you can try with the latest 
R-devel/R-patched. A similar issue has been reported earlier for 
virtualized environments where the move operation was not working 
properly, so R now falls back to copying.

But please be aware that R is currently not being tested/supported on 
WSL, you would likely run into more problems, it is not the same as 
running natively on Debian.

Best
Tomas

On 6/13/19 12:16 PM, Tim Taylor wrote:
> Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question.  New 
> Debian user here (via WSL on Windows). I've been installing packages 
> (using install.packages) in to /usr/local/lin/R/site-library without 
> problem until I tried to install xml2. When installing it gives the 
> error message:
>
> mv: cannot move '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-xml2/00new/xml2' 
> to '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xml2': Permission denied
>
> I've added myself to the staff group and other packages have installed 
> without issue. For information I'm running Debian Buster.
>
> Any pointers / suggestions as to where I'm going wrong?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
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