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Hi, is there a (cross-platform) file-locking mechanism available in R (or via some package)? I am looking for a way to have one R session lock a file for read/write access, while being updated/modified by another R session. This will provide me with a-poor-mans parallelization method. It is ok to have so called advisory looking (as in Unix), which are non-mandatory to follow. If not available,