r-language-server install fails on wsl: "mv: ERROR: moving to final location failed" with r package xml2 dependency

[Arethusag]

Problem description

the r-lanuage-server fails to install in ubuntu 22.04 WSL

The error message comes from installing the xml2 r package:
mv: cannot move '[$HOME]/.local/share/nvim/mason/staging/r-languageserver/build/00LOCK-xml2/00new/xml2' to '[$HOME]/.local/share/nvim/mason/staging/r-languageserver/build/xml2': Permission denied
ERROR: moving to final location failed

this appears to be an issue specifically with how lock foldershandle permissions on WSL. If the dependency package is installed with install.packages("xml2", INSTALL_OPTS = '--no-lock') this will fix the problem.

Why do you think this is an issue with mason-lspconfig.nvim?

This is an issue that was brought up on the xml2 repo

r-lib/xml2#361

the fix is to use this modified command. it appears to be a problem only affecting WSL, since the workaround is provided it makes sense to incorporate this into the Mason install command,

Neovim version (>= 0.7)

NVIM v0.10.0-dev
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

Operating system/version

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS WSL

I've manually reviewed the Nvim LPS client log (:LspLog) to find potential errors

• Yes

I've recently downloaded the latest plugin version of mason.nvim, mason-lspconfig.nvim, and nvim-lspconfig

• Yes

Affected language servers

r-language-server

Steps to reproduce

try installing r-language server on ubuntu wsl 22.04

Actual behavior

r-language-server fails to install

Expected behavior

r-language-server install succeeds

LspInfo

N/A

LspLog

No response

Healthcheck

mason: require("mason.health").check()

mason.nvim ~
- OK mason.nvim version v1.8.3
- OK PATH: prepend
- OK Providers: 
    mason.providers.registry-api
    mason.providers.client
- OK neovim version >= 0.7.0

mason.nvim [Registries] ~
- OK Registry `github.com/mason-org/mason-registry version: 2023-12-09-chummy-lumber` is installed.

mason.nvim [Core utils] ~
- OK unzip: `UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.`
- OK wget: `GNU Wget 1.21.2 built on linux-gnu.`
- OK curl: `curl 7.81.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.16`
- OK gzip: `gzip 1.10`
- OK tar: `tar (GNU tar) 1.34`
- OK bash: `GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)`
- OK sh: `Ok`

mason.nvim [Languages] ~
- WARNING cargo: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: cargo failed with exit code - and signal -. cargo is not executable
- WARNING Composer: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: composer failed with exit code - and signal -. composer is not executable
- WARNING PHP: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: php failed with exit code - and signal -. php is not executable
- WARNING Ruby: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: ruby failed with exit code - and signal -. ruby is not executable
- WARNING RubyGem: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: gem failed with exit code - and signal -. gem is not executable
- WARNING javac: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: javac failed with exit code - and signal -. javac is not executable
- WARNING java: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: java failed with exit code - and signal -. java is not executable
- WARNING julia: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: julia failed with exit code - and signal -. julia is not executable
- OK node: `v18.19.0`
- OK Go: `go version go1.21.5 linux/amd64`
- OK python: `Python 3.10.12`
- OK npm: `10.2.5`
- OK luarocks: `/usr/bin/luarocks 3.8.0`
- OK pip: `pip 22.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.10)`
- OK python venv: `Ok`

mason.nvim [GitHub] ~
- OK GitHub API rate limit. Used: 1. Remaining: 4999. Limit: 5000. Reset: Fri Dec  8 22:50:41 2023.

Screenshots or recordings

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[yuanj82]

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