Package cannot be installed when installing as another user on linux about credentials

[jeroen]

Does it work if you just switch to the new user first? I don't understand why a user wouldn't have permission to read their own git config files?

As a workaround maybe you can try this:

install.packages("credentials", INSTALL_opts="--no-test-load")

[jefshe]

Thanks for the fast response jeroen

Does it work if you just switch to the new user first?

yep

I don't understand why a user wouldn't have permission to read their own git config files?

Running this command from the command line results in the same behaviour

sudo -u otheruser git config --global credential.helper cache
error: could not lock config file /home/currentuser/.gitconfig: Permission denied

I guess git looks at the HOME variable to figure out where your git config file is.

running sudo with -H flag seems to resolve the problem too. So i'll close this out