On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a (cross-platform) file-locking mechanism available in R (or
> via some package)?
I don't believe there really is a cross-platform file-locking mechanism
available to any language. File-locking is an OS feature, and the
semantics d
[Henrik Bengtsson]
>I am looking for a way to have one R session lock a file for
>read/write access, while being updated/modified by another R session.
>This will provide me with a-poor-mans parallelization method. It is
>ok to have so called advisory looking (as in Unix), which are
>non-mandator
Hi,
is there a (cross-platform) file-locking mechanism available in R (or
via some package)?
I am looking for a way to have one R session lock a file for
read/write access, while being updated/modified by another R session.
This will provide me with a-poor-mans parallelization method. It is
ok t
