Installation error - `htmltools.dll: Permission denied`

[Emanuel-1986]

Hi When trying to install HTML tools, I am getting the error below:

install.packages("htmltools") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Schembri/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/4.3/htmltools_0.5.7.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 357951 bytes (349 KB) downloaded 349 KB

package ‘htmltools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘htmltools’ Warning: restored ‘htmltools’

The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpG8FQtJ\downloaded_packages Warning message: In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) : problem copying C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\00LOCK\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll to C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll: Permission denied

What can I do? Thanks. Emanuel

[gadenbuie]

In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) : problem copying C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\00LOCK\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll to C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll: Permission denied

Usually this is a sign that the htmltools package is in use in an R process on your computer. Try finding the R session that's using htmltools (or just close all of your R sessions). There's also a chance that pak would better handle this installation.

[Rikkiff]

@Emanuel-1986. I get the same error message when attempting to updage htmltools. Restarted the computer before installation, so the issue seems not to be the package already running in my case. Did you find a solution?

I also get the following error message: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘htmltools’ Warning in install.packages : problem copying C:\Users\vi2285\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\00LOCK\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll to C:\Users\vi2285\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll: Permission denied However, no folder named C:\Users\vi2285\AppData\ exists on my computer.

Best, Rikki

[stahengik]

In file.copy(savedcopy, lib, recursive = TRUE) : problem copying C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\00LOCK\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll to C:\Users\Schembri\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\htmltools\libs\x64\htmltools.dll: Permission denied

Usually this is a sign that the htmltools package is in use in an R process on your computer. Try finding the R session that's using htmltools (or just close all of your R sessions). There's also a chance that pak would better handle this installation.

This worked, I had other R sessions open, that was preventing

[gadenbuie]

Thanks for confirmation @stahengik!