Prophet problems

[jak123]

Hi R Com.

i have some problems installing the prophet package. I am using the following code:

install.packages("prophet")

ERROR
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/JRNH/OneDrive - Columbus Global/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/prophet_1.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2051255 bytes (2.0 MB)
downloaded 2.0 MB

package ‘prophet’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in install.packages : ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘C:\Users\JRNH\OneDrive - Columbus Global\Documents\R\win-library\4.1’ for modifying
Try removing ‘C:\Users\JRNH\OneDrive - Columbus Global\Documents\R\win-library\4.1/00LOCK’

Thanks

[nirgrahamuk]

I think you have two issues.

1. having your installations default to a onedrive path
2. not having Rtools and potentially wanting to compile R Packages on a windows platform.

to solve your immediate issue (1) see : How to fix RStudio’s package installation on Windows 10 | by José Duarte, PhD | Medium
to address (2) simply install Rtools
Using Rtools4 on Windows (r-project.org)

[arthur.t]

@jak123

Try removing ‘C:\Users\JRNH\OneDrive - Columbus Global\Documents\R\win-library\4.1/00LOCK’

Did you try to delete this file? Might have to close R first.

[jak123]

Hi both, problem solved thx