[R-SIG-Mac] Permission issues running R in terminal

[peter dalgaard]

I have the same setup, and not seeing this. That is, _unless_ I try from a shell running in a deleted diretory:

Peters-iMac:BUILD-dist pd$  R CMD INSTALL --help
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
...

(because BUILD-dist is wiped and re-created by the automatic builds, but the shell still refers to the unlinked directory.)

-pd

> On 18 Feb 2024, at 23:57 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using 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?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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