[Tikzdevice-bugs] Tikzdevice not finishing file

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Charlie Sharpsteen
<chuck at sharpsteen.net>wrote:

>  Error in createLockFile(lockname) : cannot create lock file****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Is this related to the problem above?
>>
>
> It could possibly be the cause. This usually happens when you interrupt R
> while tikz is drawing---this causes filehash to leave a stray lockfile
> which blocks all further text rendering operations.
>
>  There is a fix for this situation in the devel version, but
> unfortunately R-Forge has mysteriously stopped building binary packages for
> us. I have been bugging them about it, but no response so far. Source code
> for the latest devel snapshot is available from GitHub:
>
>   https://github.com/Sharpie/RTikZDevice/zipball/r-forge
>
> -Charlie
>

Just a follow-up note: Binary packages are now available from R-Forge once
again. Development snapshots can be installed using:

    install.packages('tikzDevice', repos = 'http://r-forge.r-project.org')

-Charlie