Error when installing package with renv from cache link

[bastienchassagnol]

As I have understood, when renv uses a local package present in cache, it first copies it to a temp folder, then copies it again in the folder defined with variable RENV_PATHS_LIBRARY_ROOT. Unfortunately, for some of the packages (not all), for a reason I didn't understand, this may not work, yielding property rights error as below:

For example, when wanting to install package "NLP",
renv::install("NLP")
Installing NLP [0.2-1] ...
OK [linked cache]
Erreur : could not copy / move file 'C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpCwyyuw\renv-staging-add07f6a326e/NLP' to 'C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages/transcriptomic pipeline/R-4.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32/NLP'
move: cannot rename file 'C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpCwyyuw\renv-staging-add07f6a326e/NLP' to 'C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages/transcriptomic pipeline/R-4.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32/NLP', reason 'Accès refusé'
copy:

C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpCwyyuw seems the default folder used by renv to temporally copy files and folders before their final access, and I can copy files from there, or even remove them with R function file.copy.

Do you have an idea why renv seems not to be able to perform such an operation?

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252    LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] BiocManager_1.30.10 compiler_4.0.3      tools_4.0.3         renv_0.12.5 

 renv::diagnostics()
Diagnostics Report -- renv [0.12.5]
===================================

# Session Info =======================
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] BiocManager_1.30.10 compiler_4.0.3      tools_4.0.3        
[4] renv_0.12.5        

# Project ============================
Project path: "C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/technical_reports/transcriptomic pipeline"
# User Profile =======================
[no user profile detected]

# Settings ===========================
List of 7
 $ external.libraries       : chr(0) 
 $ ignored.packages         : chr(0) 
 $ package.dependency.fields: chr [1:3] "Imports" "Depends" "LinkingTo"
 $ r.version                : chr(0) 
 $ snapshot.type            : chr "implicit"
 $ use.cache                : logi TRUE
 $ vcs.ignore.library       : logi TRUE

# Options ============================
List of 4
 $ renv.consent             : logi TRUE
 $ renv.config.cache.enabled: logi FALSE
 $ renv.config.copy.method  : chr "R"
 $ renv.verbose             : logi TRUE

# Environment Variables ==============
HOME                         = C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\Documents
LANG                         = <NA>
R_LIBS                       = <NA>
R_LIBS_SITE                  = <NA>
R_LIBS_USER                  = C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages/transcriptomic pipeline/R-4.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32;C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpYRJ1dl/renv-system-library
RENV_DEFAULT_R_ENVIRON       = <NA>
RENV_DEFAULT_R_ENVIRON_USER  = <NA>
RENV_DEFAULT_R_LIBS          = <NA>
RENV_DEFAULT_R_LIBS_SITE     = <NA>
RENV_DEFAULT_R_LIBS_USER     = C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Documents/R/win-library/4.0
RENV_DEFAULT_R_PROFILE       = <NA>
RENV_DEFAULT_R_PROFILE_USER  = <NA>
RENV_PATHS_LIBRARY_ROOT      = C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages
RENV_PATHS_LIBRARY_ROOT_ASIS = TRUE
RENV_PATHS_ROOT              = C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages
RENV_PROJECT                 = C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/technical_reports/transcriptomic pipeline

# PATH ===============================
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\Documents\R\R-4.0.3\bin\x64
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
- C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
- C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin
- C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin
- C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts
- C:\WINDOWS\system32
- C:\WINDOWS
- C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
- C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Box\Box Edit\
- C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
- C:\Program Files\R\R-3.6.1\bin\x64
- C:\swigwin-4.0.1
- C:\Program Files\CMake\bin
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin
- C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-8.1.0-posix-seh-rt_v6-rev0\mingw64\bin
- C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin
- C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\version-bin
- C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\scoop\apps\perl\current\perl\bin
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\scoop\apps\perl\current\c\bin
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\scoop\apps\perl\current\perl\bin
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\scoop\apps\perl\current\perl\site\bin
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\scoop\apps\latex\current\texmfs\install\miktex\bin\x64
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
- C:\Users\BNCL_CB.FR1\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\

# Cache ==============================
There are a total of 421 package(s) installed in the renv cache.
Cache path: "C:/Users/BNCL_CB.FR1/Box/02. BNCL (PhD)/patrimony/source packages/cache/v5/R-4.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32"

[kevinushey]

Do you have an antivirus installed, by any chance? I've occasionally seen issues like this occur if an antivirus briefly locks a folder while R / renv is trying to move that folder.

[kevinushey]

You could also try disabling renv's staged package installation, with:

options(renv.config.install.staged = FALSE)

so that renv always tries to install directly within the project library.

[bastienchassagnol]

I have Symantec antivirus installed, but apparentely nothing to do with it. I may also retry that operation by giving my local usr account admin rights (even though that would mean transgress some of my enterprise rules).
Till now, to cope with that mistake, I have set option renv.config.cache.enabled to False which seems to prevent any mistake for the moment, but I will try your suggestion of disactivating renv.config.install.staged.