Troubleshooting

On this page we will collect issues that people have come across while working on the course, together with the solutions. If you paste your error message into the search box on this course website, it should find the appropriate issue on this page in case it has been reported by someone else already.

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• If your R project is located inside a directory with a very long path name, you might get an error messge because R will not be able to access the path.
  The error message may look like this: ’Warning in gzfile(file, “wb”): cannot open the compressed file ’C:/….. “
  Solution: make sure you create your R project in a higher directory with a shorter path

• For some users, Github asks for username and password (or personal access token) every time you want to push your commits to Github. This can happen if your Git version is too old.
  Solution: install the latest version of Git.