[Similar question to 14382209 but suggestions there haven't solved this issue]
New installation of R 4.0.0 and tidyverse on a Windows 7 work computer returns this classic failed to create lock directory error
install.packages('tidyverse')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com/users/A04/ocarrib/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘highr’, ‘markdown’, ‘testthat’, ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘viridisLite’, ‘askpass’, ‘rematch’, ‘prettyunits’, ‘processx’, ‘knitr’, ‘yaml’, ‘htmltools’, ‘evaluate’, ‘base64enc’, ‘tinytex’, ‘xfun’, ‘backports’, ‘generics’, ‘reshape2’, ‘assertthat’, ‘glue’, ‘fansi’, ‘DBI’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘R6’, ‘tidyselect’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘pkgconfig’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘BH’, ‘plogr’, ‘digest’, ‘gtable’, ‘isoband’, ‘scales’, ‘withr’, ‘vctrs’, ‘curl’, ‘mime’, ‘openssl’, ‘utf8’, ‘clipr’, ‘cellranger’, ‘progress’, ‘callr’, ‘fs’, ‘rmarkdown’, ‘whisker’, ‘selectr’, ‘stringi’, ‘broom’, ‘cli’, ‘crayon’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘dplyr’, ‘forcats’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘haven’, ‘hms’, ‘httr’, ‘jsonlite’, ‘lubridate’, ‘magrittr’, ‘modelr’, ‘pillar’, ‘purrr’, ‘readr’, ‘readxl’, ‘reprex’, ‘rlang’, ‘rstudioapi’, ‘rvest’, ‘stringr’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’, ‘xml2’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
modelr 0.1.6 0.1.7 FALSE
xml2 1.3.1 1.3.2 TRUE
Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/highr_0.8.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 48579 bytes (47 KB)
downloaded 47 KB
# .... Output edited for brevity #
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/tidyverse_1.3.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 440009 bytes (429 KB)
downloaded 429 KB
package ‘highr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in install.packages : ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com\users\A04\ocarrib\R\win-library\4.0’ for modifying
Try removing ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com\users\A04\ocarrib\R\win-library\4.0/00LOCK’
Then trialling rtools
install.packages('rtools')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com/users/A04/ocarrib/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘rtools’ is not available (for R version 4.0.0)
Then trialled:
- Deletion 00lock folder directly from stated location (~A04\ocarrib\R\win-library\4.0/00LOCK)
- restarting R
- No luck, same error
Then trialled with options:
> install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE, INSTALL_opts = '--no-lock')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com/users/A04/ocarrib/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘viridisLite’, ‘askpass’, ‘rematch’, ‘prettyunits’, ‘processx’, ‘lazyeval’, ‘backports’, ‘generics’, ‘reshape2’, ‘assertthat’, ‘fansi’, ‘DBI’, ‘lifecycle’, ‘R6’, ‘tidyselect’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘pkgconfig’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘BH’, ‘plogr’, ‘digest’, ‘gtable’, ‘isoband’, ‘scales’, ‘withr’, ‘vctrs’, ‘curl’, ‘mime’, ‘openssl’, ‘utf8’, ‘clipr’, ‘cellranger’, ‘progress’, ‘callr’, ‘fs’, ‘whisker’, ‘selectr’, ‘stringi’, ‘rex’, ‘yaml’, ‘evaluate’, ‘highr’, ‘markdown’, ‘xfun’, ‘htmltools’, ‘base64enc’, ‘tinytex’, ‘broom’, ‘cli’, ‘crayon’, ‘dbplyr’, ‘dplyr’, ‘forcats’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘haven’, ‘hms’, ‘httr’, ‘jsonlite’, ‘lubridate’, ‘magrittr’, ‘modelr’, ‘pillar’, ‘purrr’, ‘readr’, ‘readxl’, ‘reprex’, ‘rlang’, ‘rstudioapi’, ‘rvest’, ‘stringr’, ‘tibble’, ‘tidyr’, ‘xml2’, ‘covr’, ‘feather’, ‘glue’, ‘knitr’, ‘rmarkdown’, ‘testthat’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
modelr 0.1.6 0.1.7 FALSE
xml2 1.3.1 1.3.2 TRUE
Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/RColorBrewer_1.1-2.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 55583 bytes (54 KB)
downloaded 54 KB
# Output edited for brevity
package ‘RColorBrewer’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘viridisLite’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘askpass’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in install.packages : ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com\users\A04\ocarrib\R\win-library\4.0’ for modifying
Try removing ‘\\ukbia04sfsrv002.a04.dt21.svcs.hp.com\users\A04\ocarrib\R\win-library\4.0/00LOCK’
Any other thoughts??
Session info:
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.0 tools_4.0.0
R_HOME(Documents)/R/winlibrary on Windows and delete folders with LOCK in them. BTW I think you need rtools40,I'm not sure if there is a package called rtools. – Ozonize