Error in generating plots inline in Rmd files [closed]

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After updating to macOS 12.01 I am unable to generate any inline plots using ggplot in Rmd files that are stored in a Google Drive directory.

Any call to ggplot, e.g.

ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "count")

Will fail with the error:

Error in dev.off() : 
  QuartzBitmap_Output - unable to open file '/Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/.../.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/-analysis/1/BB6A8C74064F89F4/cr5qmxwe04yxu_t/_rs_chunk_plot_001.png'

Executing this code in the console works fine, and I can knit the Rmd without errors. Changing the graphics backend to Cairo also fixes this, so it seems likely to be an issue with Quartz.

Moving the project file to a local directory also resolves this, but previous to macOS 12.01, R project integration with Google Drive would not cause these issues.

Xcode, XQuartz, R, and RStudio are all up to date.

rmacosggplot2r-markdowngoogle-drive-shared-drive
Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. – Community
OP, this is definitely an issue with your Google Drive. R and R Studio generally do not play very well when the libraries or projects are loaded from a shared drive. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not. In the end, I use OneDrive / Google Drive to backup project files, but for the working environment, I don't work off anything that is synced. I recommend the same for you. – chemdork123