R SIG Debian - Feb 2010 - installing ROCR/gplots packages blows up memory

When I try to install the ROCR package (which requires gplots) on
Ubuntu 9.10 (Xubuntu Karmic Koala) 64-bit on R version 2.9.2
(2009-08-24), it eats up all my RAM (2GB) and swap (4GB) and keeps
allocating more memory until Linux's out of memory (OOM) killer kills
the perl process.  This problem is special to Ubuntu because I can
install other packages (such as party) on this Ubuntu system, and I
can install ROCR/gplots on Windows.

Here's the installation log copied from the console (look for "Out of
memory"):
http://pastebin.com/Y3cYAnve

How can I get gplots and ROCR packages installed?  I am not sure how
to get build log from Perl, and I would post it if you could tell me
how to find it.


Best regards,
Andrew

Andrew,

My first suggestion would be to upgrade to the latest version of R,
2.10.1.  Ubuntu packages are available in the CRAN repository.  If
that doesn't work, we can investigate further.

Michael

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Ziem <ahz001 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> When I try to install the ROCR package (which requires gplots) on
> Ubuntu 9.10 (Xubuntu Karmic Koala) 64-bit on R version 2.9.2
> (2009-08-24), it eats up all my RAM (2GB) and swap (4GB) and keeps
> allocating more memory until Linux's out of memory (OOM) killer kills
> the perl process. ?This problem is special to Ubuntu because I can
> install other packages (such as party) on this Ubuntu system, and I
> can install ROCR/gplots on Windows.
>
> Here's the installation log copied from the console (look for "Out
of memory"):
> http://pastebin.com/Y3cYAnve
>
> How can I get gplots and ROCR packages installed? ?I am not sure how
> to get build log from Perl, and I would post it if you could tell me
> how to find it.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
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