Finally on time
Winter is coming and winter tires are even coming faster!! Normally, I’m part of the crowd who rushes to the workshop in first snow, now I’m part of the (surprisingly small) crowd of people who rush on night frost already…
Couldn’t delete a failed R package installation
Today I faced a strange thing, while I tried to install an update to one of my R-packages. As usually, I installed the latest version from it like this
library("devtools")
install_github("fischuu/GenomicTools")But the installation failed, and when I tried to reinstall it, I got this error message:
Installing package into ‘/homeappl/home/<user>/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘/homeappl/home/<user>/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.1’ for modifying
Try removing ‘/homeappl/home/<user>/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.1/00LOCK-GenomicTools’
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
installation of package ‘/tmp/Rtmp<...>Lv/file3c36<...>34/GenomicTools_0.2.11.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit statusSo, I tried to go in said directory and delete the folder manually and there I received another error:
rm: cannot remove '00LOCK-GenomicTools/GenomicTools/libs/.nfs00000001002e2<...>d': Device or resource busyI tried this and this, but nothing helped to delete that folder, it kept mocking my that the device is busy. Eventually, it helped just to rename the folder list this
mv 00LOCK-GenomicTools/ 00LOCK-GenomicTools-deleteThis/It is now still hanging there in the folder, but I was able to reinstall the R-package and now I need to revisit the folder in a few days and check, if the device is still busy or if I can delete it then…
CDU/CSU Durcheinander
[D] Ich bin ja nun mal weit davon entfernt ein CDU-Wähler zu sein, aber ich kann nicht anders, als mich darüber zu wundern, was da gerade zwischen Laschet/CDU und Söder/CSU abläuft! Wie kann jemand ohne gravierende Gedächtnisprobleme ernsthaft Söder für kanzlertauglich halten?! Klar, die Abgeordneten stehen hinter ihm, da sie sich evtl bessere Chancen auf einen erneuten Sitz im Bundestag ausrechnen – aber trotzdem, da darf auch Mal hinterfragt werden, mit welchem Preis das kommt!
Falls Söder tatsächlich der Kanzlerkandidat wird hoffe ich inständig, dass viele Bürger kein so schlechtes Gedächtnis haben wie momentan viele CDU Mitglieder!
Man darf hoffen, dass andere Parteien da einen Nutzen draus ziehen können…
A little piece of Normality
Starting today the restaurants are again open in Finland. Of course, Corona is not over yet, there are still many people getting it and one still needs to be careful while being out, but still having a small breakfast out feels quite nice (although the lockdown was not even that long compared to other countries).
However, let’s hope the vaccines will start to have an effect and that severe infections or even deaths will vanish soon and we can start to live normal lifes again.
In that sense, have a nice start into the week!
Winter greetings
Just on Christmas the snow came to southern Finland and we had some ‘white powdered Christmas’. However, now, a few day after that we got quite a nice amount of snow and looking at the temperatures it seems it came to stay. Lets see, maybe I’ll manage even this winter to learn better skiing or skating.