pak install error with Unable to move package from cache to pkgdir

[sbamin]

There seems to be an issue each time moving a complied or cached package from tmp dir to package dir. Each time, I need to manually remove package from the package dir in order for pak::pak to run successfully. I checked my directory ACLS and they seem all good.

pak::pak("tidyplots")

✔ Loading metadata database ... done
 
→ Will install 1 package.
→ Will update 6 packages.
→ All 7 packages (0 B) are cached.
+ cachem            1.1.0 
+ fastmap   1.2.0 → 1.2.0 
+ magrittr  2.0.4 → 2.0.4 
+ ragg      1.5.0 → 1.5.0 
+ Rcpp      1.1.0 → 1.1.0 
+ S7        0.2.0 → 0.2.0 
+ tidyplots 0.3.1 → 0.3.1 [bld]
ℹ No downloads are needed, 7 pkgs are cached
Error: 
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error in `install_extracted_binary(filename, lib_cache, pkg_cache, lib, …`:
! Unable to move package from .../renv/pkgs/4.2/_cache/file60b692abe6fd/fastmap
to ...renv/pkgs/4.2/fastmap

Also, a minor issue when installing or updating a package with pak::pak("pkgname"), often times pak command either reinstalls or rebuilds a package with an identical version. I cannot find if there is an option to skip this step while keeping an option enabled when reinstall/rebuild is required with version change for dependencies.

Thanks!

[janni-hr]

I have a similar problem on the Posit Workbench, for which I have opened a ticket in pkgdepends: r-lib/pkgdepends#451.

Not sure if it's the same underlying issue, as I don't use renv. But at least it's the same error, so I thought I'd mention it here as well.

[averissimo]

For future reference: I was having this problem on Github CI and had to remove renv's cache to solve it.

See this job (log might get deleted after some time)