... and of course, immediately after clicking send, I realize you're
using macOS, not Windows. I don't think we need this sub-directory
approach on non-Windows operating systems, so if that's affecting the
behaviour here, that's surely an RStudio bug.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM Kevin Ushey
Hi Duncan,
We haven't investigated yet, but I strongly suspect this is an RStudio issue.
For extra context, RStudio is doing something similar to R's own
staged installation here, where the package is initially installed
into a _build sub-directory, and then moved to its final intended
installati
I'm running RStudio on MacOS Sonoma 14.7.1 on an M4 Macbook. I haven't
updated either RStudio or the OS for several months.
However, I updated R to version 4.5.0 recently, and to 4.5.1 today. In
both of those versions I'm seeing some strange behaviour when I ask
RStudio to install a package