Authentication issue: Error in file(con, "w") : cannot open the connection

[fernandojru]

Hello, I am encountering the following issues with both create_token() and search_tweets()

With search_tweets

It opens my browser and lets me authenticate showing: "Authentication complete. Please close this page and return to R."

rt <- search_tweets(
  "#gay", n = 180, include_rts = FALSE
)

Requesting token on behalf of user...
Waiting for authentication in browser...
Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort
Authentication complete.
Error in file(con, "w") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "w") : cannot open file '.Renviron': Permission denied

With create_token

I try to use my own credentials (consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret) but when executing create_token() got a similar error

token <- create_token(
  app = "Twitter in R fernandojru",
  consumer_key = api_key,
  consumer_secret = api_secret_key,
  access_token = access_token,
  access_secret = access_token_secret)

Error in file(con, "w") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "w") : cannot open file '.Renviron': Permission denied

rtweet version

packageVersion("rtweet")
[1] ‘0.7.0’

Session info

R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] rtweet_0.7.0 httpuv_1.5.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.4.1 compiler_3.6.2 magrittr_1.5 R6_2.4.1 promises_1.1.0 later_1.0.0
[7] tools_3.6.2 curl_4.3 Rcpp_1.0.4.6 jsonlite_1.6.1 openssl_1.4.1 askpass_1.1

Token

## copy/paste output
rtweet::get_token()

Requesting token on behalf of user...
Waiting for authentication in browser...
Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort
Authentication complete.
Error in file(con, "w") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "w") :
cannot open file '/Users/fernandorodriguez/.Renviron': Permission denied

[llrs]

This seems to be related to #417 but could be that you specify a different app name than on your Twitter developer page. Closing for now, but let me know if you have more questions about this