Fatal error: cannot mkdir R_TempDir

Question

When attempting to run R, I get this error:

Fatal error: cannot mkdir R_TempDir

I found two possible fixes for this problem by goog

Answer 1

Go to your user directory and create a file called .Renviron and add the following line, save it and reopen RStudio or Rgui or Rterm

TMP = ''

This worked with me on Windows 7