[R-SIG-Mac] R CMD build "cannot open compressed file" with R 3.6.2

[Spencer Graves]

       Thanks to Jeff Newmiller for his reply.  He was correct.  My 
Bitdefender internet security automatically upgraded itself and started 
blocking R in ways it had not before.  Please excuse me for taking the 
time of this list with this issue (and for my delay in sending this 
"issue resolution" email).


       Spencer Graves


On 2019-12-25 13:18, Spencer Graves wrote:
>
>
> On 2019-12-25 12:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>> "Permission denied" suggests that this is not related to R. Perhaps you ran R with elevated permissions yesterday?
>>
>> On December 25, 2019 8:37:36 AM PST, Spencer Graves<spencer.graves using prodsyse.com>  wrote:
>>> Hello, All:
>>>
>>>
>>>        I just upgraded to R 3.6.2 and suddenly got, "cannot open
>>> compressed file" with "R CMD build" of a package that I built yesterday
>>>
>>> with R 3.6.1, and I don't recall having gotten an error message with
>>> 3.6.1.
>>>
>>>
>>>        What do you suggest I do to get around this?
>>>        Thanks,
>>>        Spencer Graves
>>>
>>>
>>> $ R CMD build Ecfun
>>> * checking for file ‘Ecfun/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
>>> * preparing ‘Ecfun’:
>>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>>> * installing the package to build vignettes
>>> * creating vignettes ... OK
>>> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell
>>> scripts
>>> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
>>> * building ‘Ecfun_0.2-2.tar.gz’
>>> Warning in gzfile(tarfile, "wb", compression = compression_level) :
>>>    cannot open compressed file
>>> '/Users/sbgraves/Documents/current/R/Ecfun_0.2-2.tar.gz', probable
>>> reason 'Permission denied'
>>> Error in gzfile(tarfile, "wb", compression = compression_level) :
>>>    cannot open the connection
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>> $ r
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
>>> Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.2
>>>
>>> Matrix products: default
>>> BLAS:
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
>>> LAPACK:
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] compiler_3.6.2
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