Unable to install package on RStudio

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greeting,
i'm new to R and Rstudio, already install them to my computer but I'm not able to install the package.

my code

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

RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows
Warning in install.packages :
'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.1.3/library"' is not writable
Warning in install.packages :
cannot create dir 'C:\Users\hi\OneDrive?????????', reason 'Invalid argument'
Error in install.packages : unable to create ‘C:/Users/hi/OneDrive/?????????/R/win-library/4.1’
Warning message:
In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
path[1]="C:/Users/hi/OneDrive/?????????": The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

after installing Rtools also get the same message

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You need to run RStudio as "Administrator" to be able to install into this folder.

R has problems with cloud-synced folders (OneDrive in your case) and non-ASCII characters in folder paths, If you opt for using a user level package library, I recommend you to set your package library in a non-synced folder that doesn't include non-ASCII characters on its path.

You can change the default library folder by setting your R_LIBS_SITE environmental variable in a .Reviron or .Rprofile file. For example:

# In a .Renviron file you can set it by adding a line like this one with the desired location 
R_LIBS_SITE="C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-4.1.2\\library"

For a more detailed explanation, you can read this blog post

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thanks andresrcs, i run RStudio as "Administrator" and it works

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