GGPlot2 Install Error - Access Denied

[jcblum]

Hi! Welcome!

Sorry you're having installation problems -- lots of people stumble on this sort of thing, I'm afraid! One reason for the sort of error you're seeing is a conflict with security restrictions and/or anti-malware software. See here (under "for the second problem"):

Stringi Package Installation Failure

For the first problem, the package did not update to version 1.2.3 because that version is only available as source and R for Windows will typically default to installing the latest available binary (version 1.1.7). That's what the line "Binaries will be installed" in the output means. If this is happening to you more often recently, it's most likely because pre-compiled binaries aren't available for these packages with your combination of R version and OS version. You can force installation from source by calling: install.packages("stringi", type = "source") but for packages that include non-R code (such as stringi, which has major parts written in C++), you will need to have the Windows …