I am unable to install the package "devtools" on Window PC. I am pasting the error here:
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Lenovo/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘cli’
There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
devtools 2.4.4 2.4.5 FALSE
trying URL 'https://mirror.niser.ac.in/cran/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/cli_3.4.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1307617 bytes (1.2 MB)
downloaded 1.2 MB
package ‘cli’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘cli’
Warning: restored ‘cli’
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpCE55e1\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘devtools’
trying URL 'https://mirror.niser.ac.in/cran/src/contrib/devtools_2.4.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 374718 bytes (365 KB)
downloaded 365 KB
- installing source package 'devtools' ...
** package 'devtools' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
namespace 'cli' 3.2.0 is already loaded, but >= 3.3.0 is required
Calls: ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'devtools' - removing 'C:/Users/Lenovo/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/devtools'
The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpCE55e1\downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) :
problem copying C:\Users\Lenovo\OneDrive\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\00LOCK\cli\libs\x64\cli.dll to C:\Users\Lenovo\OneDrive\Documents\R\win-library\4.1\cli\libs\x64\cli.dll: Permission denied
2: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status