Installation of ggplot2 fails because of `failed to lock fastr library directory` on macOS

[TinusChen]

Installation of ggplot2 fails because of `failed to lock fastr library directory` on macOS

[steve-s]

Hello TinusChen,

have you tried removing the /Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable directory as the error message suggests? You can do that with

rm -rf /Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable

If you can reproduce this issue again and following the suggestions in the error message:

ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘/Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6’ for modifying
Try removing ‘/Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable’

do not fix the problem, then please re-open this issue.

[TinusChen]

Hello TinusChen,

have you tried removing the /Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable directory as the error message suggests? You can do that with

rm -rf /Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable

If you can reproduce this issue again and following the suggestions in the error message:

ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘/Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6’ for modifying
Try removing ‘/Users/tinus.chen/R/x86_64-apple-darwin-library/fastr-21.0.0.2-3.6/00LOCK-gtable’

do not fix the problem, then please re-open this issue.

The problem could be also solved by removing the 00LOCK-gtable directory. Thanks for your suggestion.