On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Changbin Du <changb...@gmail.com> wrote: > INstalling of "RSQLite" was successful. > > in R: >> packageVersion("RSQLite") > [1] '0.9.4' > > > > When I try to install "sqldf", I found the following errors: > >> install.packages("sqldf") > Installing package(s) into '/house/homedirs/c/cdu/library/' > (as 'lib' is unspecified) > trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/sqldf_0.4-0.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 19920 bytes (19 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 19 Kb > > ERROR: failed to lock directory '/house/homedirs/c/cdu/library' for > modifying > Try removing '/house/homedirs/c/cdu/library/00LOCK' > > The downloaded packages are in > '/tmp/RtmpszmT38/downloaded_packages' > Warning message: > In install.packages("sqldf") : > installation of package 'sqldf' had non-zero exit status > > When I try to remove the /house/homedirs/c/cdu/library/00LOCK' by rm -r > 00LOCK, > > I got the following errors: > > cdu@nuuk:~/library$ rm -r 00LOCK > rm: cannot remove `00LOCK/RSQLite/libs/.nfs00000001301e52e000000004': Device > or resource busy > > Not known what happened. > > Gabor, do you have any idea? > > Thanks! >
You will need to remove the lock file. Try shutting down any processes that could be trying to access it *e.g. all R processes and all shells) and then try removing it again. If need be change the file's permissions and/or try as root. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.