Error in gzfile(file, “wb”): cannot open the connection or compressed file

Question

I\'m trying to run two things: first, I\'m creating a PDF with 4x5, ending with dev.off(), and then trying to create a new graph. However, after starting the second plot, I get:

Answer 1

In my case it was Windows Defender which was preventing Rstudio to write any file on hard drive. Either you need to turn Controlled Folder Access off or add Rstudio in the exclusion list.