R help - Aug 2004 - While installing Hmisc...

Dear R-Gurus:

This afternoon I was installing the "Hmisc" package.
I use R in Linux (Fedora Core 1  (yarrow)) on a Compaq presario with 128 MB RAM
laptop.
Opening an R session as a root user (superuser), I issued

install.packages("Hmisc")

and waited.

R downloaded the package, installation was going on, and on the standard output
I could see that a list of "documentation filenames" being put out.
When the list of filenames came to "somers2", the computer hung up for
sometime and then started rebooting.

I went back to read the manuals (installation guides), and I tried to install
Hmisc again and made two attempts to install Hmisc. On both the occassions the
laptop started rebooting when the list of "documentation filenames"
output was at "somers2".

I later found the Hmisc folder in a folder called 00LOCK in 
my /usr/lib/R/library

I installed several other packages using the same command
"install.packages("packagename")" but till today, never
faced any difficulty.

What may be the issue? Anticipate your wisdom and advice.

/Arin Basu
 



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I guess that the perl script during the installation of Hmisc
has used all of your available memory.
I had the same problem with my laptop (288MB RAM), using
the console without an X-Server and/or adding some temporary
Swap space could help.

Best

jan 

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, data Analytics wrote:
> Dear R-Gurus:
> 
> This afternoon I was installing the "Hmisc" package.
> I use R in Linux (Fedora Core 1  (yarrow)) on a Compaq presario with 128 MB
RAM laptop.
> Opening an R session as a root user (superuser), I issued
> 
> install.packages("Hmisc")
> 
> and waited.
> 
> R downloaded the package, installation was going on, and on the standard
output I could see that a list of "documentation filenames" being put
out. When the list of filenames came to "somers2", the computer hung
up for sometime and then started rebooting.
> 
> I went back to read the manuals (installation guides), and I tried to
install Hmisc again and made two attempts to install Hmisc. On both the
occassions the laptop started rebooting when the list of "documentation
filenames" output was at "somers2".
> 
> I later found the Hmisc folder in a folder called 00LOCK in 
> my /usr/lib/R/library
> 
> I installed several other packages using the same command
"install.packages("packagename")" but till today, never
faced any difficulty.
> 
> What may be the issue? Anticipate your wisdom and advice.
> 
> /Arin Basu
>  
> 
> 
> 
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