Error in installing Tidyverse

Hi,
I've tried to install the 'tidyverse' package, but keep getting this error:

Error in install.packages : cannot open file 'C:/Users/avake/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/file5a88226a1aa1/desc/DESCRIPTION': Permission denied

even though I've tried to re-install both Rtools, Rstudio and the latest version of R.

install.packages("tidyverse")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/avake/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘desc’, ‘pkgbuild’, ‘rprojroot’, ‘pkgload’, ‘praise’, ‘colorspace’, ‘sys’, ‘ps’, ‘highr’, ‘markdown’, ‘plyr’, ‘testthat’, ‘farver’, ‘labeling’, ‘munsell’, ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘viridisLite’, ‘askpass’, ‘rematch’, ‘prettyunits’, ‘processx’, ‘knitr’, ‘yaml’, ‘htmltools’, ‘evaluate’, ‘base64enc’, ‘tinytex’, ‘xfun’, ‘backports’, ‘generics’, ‘reshape2’, ‘assertthat’, ‘glue’, ‘fansi’, ‘DBI’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘R6’, ‘tidyselect’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘pkgconfig’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘BH’, ‘plogr’, ‘digest’, ‘gtable’, ‘isoband’, ‘scales’, ‘withr’, ‘vctrs’, ‘curl’, ‘mime’, ‘openssl’, ‘utf8’, ‘clipr’, ‘cellranger’, ‘progress’, ‘callr’, ‘fs’, ‘rmarkdown’, ‘whisker’, ‘selectr’, ‘stringi’, ‘broom’, ‘cli’, ‘crayon’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘dplyr’, ‘forcats’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘haven’, ‘hms’, ‘httr’, ‘jsonlite’, ‘lubridate’, ‘magrittr’, ‘modelr’, ‘pillar’, ‘purrr’, ‘readr’, ‘readxl’, ‘reprex’, ‘rlang’, ‘rstudioapi’, ‘rvest’, ‘stringr’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’, ‘xml2’


  There is a binary version available but the
  source version is later:
     binary source needs_compilation
xml2  1.3.1  1.3.2              TRUE

  Binaries will be installed
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/pkgbuild_1.0.7.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/rprojroot_1.3-2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/pkgload_1.0.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/praise_1.0.0.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/colorspace_1.4-1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/sys_3.3.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/markdown_1.1.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/testthat_2.3.2.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/farver_2.0.3.zip'
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trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/knitr_1.28.zip'
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Error in install.packages : cannot open file 'C:/Users/avake/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/file5a88226a1aa1/desc/DESCRIPTION': Permission denied
> 

This is a permissions issue, have you checked your write permissions on that folder? Have you tried running RStudio as administrator?
Also, very often R has problems with cloud synced folders (your home folder is inside One Drive) try installing to the system level library instead.

Thank you, it was very helpful!

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