Hi I am encountering same error for every packages that i am installing. please help. My error is
package ‘bit’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in install.packages : ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘C:\Users\jacob\OneDrive\Documents\R\win-library\3.6’ for modifying
Try removing ‘C:\Users\jacob\OneDrive\Documents\R\win-library\3.6/00LOCK’
R has problems with synced folders, I recommend you to set your user-leve package library in a non-synced folder or install into the system level package library instead. You can change the defaul location by setting your R_LIBS_SITE environmental variable on a .Reviron or .Rprofile file
# In .Renviron file you can set it this way (change the R version as needed).
R_LIBS_SITE="C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-4.0.2\\library"
For a more detailed explanation, you can read this blog post
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