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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/02/2024 5:22 a.m., peter dalgaard wrote:
> To be precise: execute access, not write access.
> 
> However, neither that nor deleting the dir gives the exact "Operation not permitted" error.

I had deleted the directory using the Finder, so "cd .." led to 
"~/.Trash".  If I delete it using "rm -r", I get a slightly different 
message.

Duncan

> 
> -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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