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

[peter dalgaard]

To be precise: execute access, not write access. 

However, neither that nor deleting the dir gives the exact "Operation not permitted" error.

-pd

> On 19 Feb 2024, at 10:43 , Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM 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?
>> 
> 
> 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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