atically on the network drive of the student. But that
>> doesn't
>>>> happen as the unc path is not read correctly, leading to R attempting
to
>>>> create a local directory and being told it has no right to do so.
>>>>
>>&
>
> That is an older version of R though (3.3), but I'm wondering whether I
> would ask our IT department to just update R on all these computers to the
> latest version, or if we have to look for another solution.
>
> Cheers
> Joris
>
&g
Hi, I’d like to ask about bug 17159:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17159
I can confirm that I see exactly this bug when using dir.create on paths of UNC
form (\\server\share\xxx), with the recursive flag set. I’m seeing this when
attempting to use install.packages with suc
