blogdown::check_site list of Rmd to rebuild does not get rebuilt

When I run blogdown::check_site() I get a list of .Rmd files that need to be rebuilt.
The proposed snippet of code to run

blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = 'timestamp')

when run does not, in fact, rebuild any of the files in the list.

This is driving me crazy because listing one of the specific files in the build_rmd


> blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = c('content/covid/covid_vfe.Rmd'))
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.92.1-85E2E862 windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-01-27T11:44:41Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

                   | EN   
-------------------+------
  Pages            | 499  
  Paginator pages  |   0  
  Non-page files   | 120  
  Static files     | 642  
  Processed images |   3  
  Aliases          |   2  
  Sitemaps         |   1  
  Cleaned          |   0  

Total in 15732 ms

does not produce any effects.

I am only able to force the recompile by deleting the companion .html of the .Rmd and reissuing the command to build:

> blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = c('content/covid/covid_vfe.Rmd'))
Rendering content/covid/covid_vfe.Rmd... Done.
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.92.1-85E2E862 windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-01-27T11:44:41Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

                   | EN   
-------------------+------
  Pages            | 499  
  Paginator pages  |   0  
  Non-page files   | 120  
  Static files     | 642  
  Processed images |   3  
  Aliases          |   2  
  Sitemaps         |   1  
  Cleaned          |   0  

Total in 13603 ms

As anybody had similar difficulties?

Boring details

Below the list of .Rmd's from the check:

> blogdown::check_site()
― Running a series of automated checks for your blogdown website project...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
○ A successful check looks like this.
● [TODO] A check that needs your attention looks like this.
| Let's check out your blogdown site!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
― Checking config.toml
| Checking "baseURL" setting for Hugo...
○ Found baseURL = "https://www.ansperformance.eu/"; nothing to do here!
| Checking "ignoreFiles" setting for Hugo...
○ "ignoreFiles" looks good - nothing to do here!
| Checking setting for Hugo's Markdown renderer...
○ All set! Found the "unsafe" setting for goldmark.
― Check complete: config.toml

― Checking .gitignore
| Checking for items to remove...
○ Nothing to see here - found no items to remove.
| Checking for items to change...
○ Nothing to see here - found no items to change.
| Checking for items you can safely ignore...
○ Found! You have safely ignored: .hugo_build.lock, .DS_Store, Thumbs.db
| Checking for items to ignore if you build the site on Netlify...
○ Found! You have safely ignored: /public/, /resources/
| Checking for files required by blogdown but not committed...
○ Great! Did not find such files.
― Check complete: .gitignore

― Checking Hugo
| Checking Hugo version...
○ Found Hugo. You are using Hugo 0.92.1.
| Checking .Rprofile for Hugo version used by blogdown...
○ blogdown is using Hugo 0.92.1 to build site locally.
― Check complete: Hugo

― Checking netlify.toml...
○ Found HUGO_VERSION = 0.92.1 in [build] context of netlify.toml.
| Checking that remote & local Hugo versions match...
○ It's a match! Local and remote Hugo versions are identical (0.92.1).
| Checking that Netlify & local Hugo publish directories match...
○ Good to go - blogdown and Netlify are using the same publish directory: public
― Check complete: netlify.toml

― Checking content files
| Checking for validity of YAML metadata in posts...
○ All YAML metadata appears to be syntactically valid.
| Checking for previewed content that will not be published...
○ Found 0 files with future publish dates.
○ Found 0 files marked as drafts.
| Checking your R Markdown content...
○ All R Markdown files have been knitted.
● [TODO] Found 89 R Markdown files to update by re-rendering:

  content/acronym/fra.Rmd
  content/bibliography/aviation.Rmd
  content/bibliography/legislation.Rmd
  content/capacity/_index.Rmd
  content/capacity/atfm_apt.Rmd
  content/capacity/atfm_ert.Rmd
  content/capacity/tot_dly.Rmd
  content/covid/_index.Rmd
  content/covid/acft_ground.Rmd
  content/covid/ansp_flts.Rmd
  content/covid/covid_ert_rev.Rmd
  content/covid/covid_traffic.Rmd
  content/covid/covid_vfe.Rmd
  content/dashboard/stakeholder/ansp/_index.Rmd
  content/dashboard/stakeholder/ansp/ansp_db.Rmd
  content/definition/_index.Rmd
  content/definition/additional-asma-time.Rmd
  content/definition/additional-taxi-out-time.Rmd
  content/definition/airport-data-flow.Rmd
  content/definition/atc-pre-departure-delay.Rmd
  content/definition/atfm-delay-codes.Rmd
  content/definition/atfm-delay.Rmd
  content/definition/atfm-measure.Rmd
  content/definition/atfm-slot-adherence.Rmd
  content/definition/departure-slot.Rmd
  content/definition/en-route-charging-zone.Rmd
  content/definition/eurocontrol-area.Rmd
  content/definition/iata-code-89.Rmd
  content/definition/terminal-ans-unit-rate.Rmd
  content/economics/_index.Rmd
  content/economics/finance/guide.Rmd
  content/efficiency/_index.Rmd
  content/efficiency/asma.Rmd
  content/efficiency/hfe.Rmd
  content/efficiency/taxiout.Rmd
  content/efficiency/vfe.Rmd
  content/global/brazil/index.Rmd
  content/methodology/_index.Rmd
  content/methodology/additional-asma-time-pi.Rmd
  content/methodology/airport-capacity-utilisation.Rmd
  content/methodology/cd-vertical-flight-efficiency-pi.Rmd
  content/methodology/cri-pi.Rmd
  content/methodology/cri-pi_v1.Rmd
  content/methodology/en-route-vertical-flight-efficiency-pi.Rmd
  content/methodology/horizontal-flight-efficiency-pi.Rmd
  content/methodology/unimpeded-asma-time.Rmd
  content/methodology/unimpeded-taxi-out-time.Rmd
  content/post/2015-10-28-pru-safety-in-aerosafety-world.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/_index.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2020_06_29_prc_ws_saf.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2020_10_13_prc_ws_cap.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2020_10_15_pi_safety.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2020_10_28_prc_study_apt.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2020_12_18_prc_pos.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_01_22_prc_news.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_02_19_prc_news.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_03_23_pi_eco_covid.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_03_25_prc_web_apt.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_03_29_prr_draft.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_04_29_prc_news.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_06_21_ace_2019.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_06_23_prr_2020.Rmd
  content/publications/prc/news/2021_10_18_pi_ops_decarb.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/_index.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2016_04_05_cco-cdo.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2016_06_26_borealis-fra.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2020_10_01_tn_capacity.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2020_10_28_apt_res.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2021_01_22_tn_cri.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/2021_04_29_tn_vfe.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/covid19_tbp.Rmd
  content/publications/studies/daily_country_flows_2020.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/all-pre-departure-delay.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/asma-additional-time.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/atc-pre-departure-delay.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/emissions.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/horizontal-flight-efficiency.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/planning-taxi-times.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/taxi-out-additional-time.Rmd
  content/reference/dataset/traffic-complexity-score.Rmd
  content/study/covid19_tbp.Rmd
  content/study/daily_country_flows_2020.Rmd
  content/traffic/_index.Rmd
  content/traffic/acc.Rmd
  content/traffic/airport.Rmd
  content/traffic/ansp.Rmd
  content/traffic/flights.Rmd
  content/traffic/statfor.Rmd
  content/traffic/su.Rmd

  To update a file, re-knit or use blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = 'timestamp')
| Checking for .html/.md files to clean up...
○ Found 0 duplicate .html output files.
○ Found 0 incompatible .html files to clean up.
| Checking for the unnecessary 'content/' directory in theme...
○ Great! Your theme does not contain the content/ directory.
― Check complete: Content

It looks like there are .Rmd.lock~ files that are blocking the .Rmd to be rebuilt.
Once you delete them all works as per specs.

Does anybody know where they are coming from?
(Googling didn't bring any hints... :disappointed:)

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