R install.packages returns “failed to create lock directory”

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On NFS file systems it is sometimes not obvious what things you have to close.

The best way to avoid this is to use the --no-lock argument on the command line, i.e.:

R CMD INSTALL --no-lock <pkg>

From within R, you can do this from within your command using:

install.packages("Rcpp", dependencies = TRUE, INSTALL_opts="--no-lock")

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