Thank you very much for including this additional capability.
Our cluster is still running NFS 3 and I doubt I will be able to get
the file system upgraded. It is nice to know that the problem is
mostly solved under NFS 4.
Kasper
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
wrote:
> Note
Note that this patch is incomplete: there are three separate branches
in install.packages() where R CMD INSTALL is used, and one already
uses --pkglock. (So a short-term solution for you is to set Ncpus >
1.)
However, I think this request has been subsumed by a more general need
to be able t
Further experimentation using this patch to install.packages shows
that I sometimes have remaining 00LOCK-pkgname directories after doing
a massive update on a multi-user system with R installed on NFS.
However, I have never had install.packages/update.packages stop midway
because of an unremovable
This is a follow-up to an old thread with kind of solution to the
00LOCK problem on NFS.
I have made a patch to install.packages to accept a new argument
locktype = c("lock", "no-lock", "pkglock")
which is passed to R CMD INSTALL. This addition might have
independent interest aside from the NFS
I have some tools and an R package that together provide a solution to
the problem of updating an R package while it is attached in one or more
running R sessions (whether on the same machine or not.) The technique
is to always create a new directory for the newly installed package, so
that ex
2010/4/26 Christian Brechbühler :
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
> wrote:
>>
>> I am running into a problem with the 00LOCK file and .nfs files. It
>> seemed to be caused by the following
>> R is installed on NFS
>> user A has loaded pkg_A containing a dynamically
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running into a problem with the 00LOCK file and .nfs files. It
> seemed to be caused by the following
> R is installed on NFS
> user A has loaded pkg_A containing a dynamically loaded library
>
