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JVDeasyas123
JVDeasyas123

Reputation: 273

Why am I unable to install R packages on my new Windows computer?

I have just redownloaded R and R-studio on a new computer after my old one broke (exact same computer, OS and specs). I am trying to run a script that I have previously created, but when I try to install the packages I get a warning message and an error

Warning in readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) :
  cannot open file 'C:/Users/me/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/nlme/DESCRIPTION': probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Warning in readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) :
  cannot open compressed file 'C:/Users/me/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/nnet/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

On looking it little further I see that the folders nlme and nnet do not have a file DESCRIPTION in them. I am not sure why the packages won't install as I have never had issues, though I feel it has something to do with the path being in onedrive. I am unsure, however, 1. how to switch my path and 2. what I should switch my path to.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 892

Answers (1)

JVDeasyas123
JVDeasyas123

Reputation: 273

Thank you everyone for your answers. This medium article fixed my problem exactly. In short, I just needed to change R base code so that it would save new packages to my local drive instead of one drive.

https://medium.com/@ValidScience/how-to-fix-rstudios-package-installation-on-windows-10-c1e602bf3a1f

Upvotes: 1

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