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

[Jeff Newmiller]

I am glad my response helped direct you toward a resolution, but antivirus interference did not actually occur to me. Thanks for reporting back.

On January 1, 2020 7:23:12 AM PST, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using prodsyse.com> wrote:
>       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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