Access is denied when Kniting RMD

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#1

I am running into an issue when trying to knit Rmd.

If I tried to knit to PDF or Word, an error window would pop-up immediately, which says: Error Saving File: Access is denied. When tried to knit to HTML, the following error showed in my Rstudio Console
|............ | 17%
label: hist-weight
*Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : *

  • cannot open the connection*
    Calls: ... -> png -> .handleSimpleError -> h -> cat -> file
    In addition: Warning messages:
    1: In dir.create(dirname(name), recursive = TRUE) :
  • cannot create dir 'bayesian_inference_files', reason 'Permission denied'*
    2: In png(..., res = dpi, units = "in") :
  • unable to open file 'bayesian_inference_files/figure-html/hist-weight-1.png' for writing*
    3: In png(..., res = dpi, units = "in") : opening device failed
    4: In file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  • cannot open file 'bayesian_inference.knit.md': Permission denied*

Execution halted

Thanks for anyone may help.

#2

Are you on a network drive or something? I used to have issues working off them. I just moved the projects to the desktop and that fixed it.

#3

This might seem silly, but do you already have the file open? You'll get a permission denied error message if you already have the file open and you're trying to overwrite it.

#4

Hi Williaml. thanks for replying. It is installed on my desktop.

#5

Hi melissagwolf, thanks for reply. the only file I had open is the R markdown file I wanted to knit.

#6

Are all dependencies located in the same folder as your RMD file (e.g., images, datasets, etc)? Are you working out of your downloads folder?

#7

I have it figured out.
This Rmd is placed in a specific user's folder under my window's C:\Uswers folder and Rstudio does not have the right to write to the folder (e.g create files generated by knit).

I moved the Rmd to another public folder and it could be knit with no problem.

What I don't understand is I am logging in with this specific user profile and this user is also an administrator user and why Rsutdio does not have its right to manipulate this user folder.

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