Can't access User Library in R - “Non-Zero Exit Status” warning

Question

When I tried to install packages on my work laptop, I got an error. I\'ve been told that I have full privileges with the laptop, so there should be no blocks.

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Answer 1

Several of my students have been having problems like this with R3.3.3 (Mac) and R3.5.0 (all). We found that installing devtools and loading packages from github helped get beyond the odd "non zero exit status" problems, e.g. to get the C50 package at https://github.com/topepo/C5.0:

require("devtools")
install_github("topepo/C5.0")

We tried all of the solutions listed on this page prior to this method finally working.