Problems when installing the broom package - r

Question

I can not install the broom package. When I try I get this Error Message, that I can't understand:
installing source package 'broom' ...
** package 'broom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
Warning in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") :
cannot open file 'C:/Users/AndrisLagerlvf/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/00LOCK-broom/00new/broom/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory
Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") :
cannot open the connection
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'broom'
removing 'C:/Users/AndrésLagerlöf/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/broom'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘broom’ had non-zero exit status
I am using a Widows computer with Windows Version 1909 (OS-version 18363.657), and RStudio Version 1.2.5033, and R version 3.6.2.
When I update some packages it works fine, but when I try to update other packages I get similar error messages as above.
Further notes: I used to have the broom package installed, and tried to update the package but when I got the error message I uninstalled the package and then tried to install the package again, but got the same error message, so now I don't have access to the package.
Any suggestions on how to fix would be great! Thanks!

Answer 1

Check out/notice the difference between
C:/Users/AndrisLagerlvf/Documents/R/win-library/3.6
and
'C:/Users/AndrésLagerlöf/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/broom
That is (international) Encoding showing its ugly face.
I would suggest the following as a solution and also a quite common good practice.
Create a (most probably local) directory somewhere you have "good" access to that DOES NOT contain any exotic characters (eg C:\R-PKGS\win-library\3.6) then set this as your standard library path
.libPaths(c("C:/R-PKGS/win-library/3.6", .libPaths())) #watch out for the direction of the slashes (normal ones - not backslashes, since this is R code)
Put the above line into a/your ~/.Rprofile file eg via running file.edit('~/.Rprofile') in the Console.
Let me know if that does not help? I am curious because you mentioned that sometimes it works - my guess is that your routine works for those packages that are installed in R_HOME/library and not for those installed under your User directory, which contains the exotic characters. Additionally you could minggle around with your locale settings until R is satisfied with them, but I have not tested such a solution (yet) ... since this would involve heavy adjustments, to my locale and typeset settings (sorry for that).
Or even better if you want R to branch according to your Version ie if you have multiple subfolders for multiple differing minor R versions (eg R-3.5 and R-3.6 side by side) ie this is how my libPath setting looks like
.libPaths( c( paste0( "D:/R_LIB/", substr(getRversion(),1,3) ), .libPaths() ) )
This has the advantage compared to the ENV VAR approach that you can manage multiple R.version library subfolders ...