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 > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- +----------------------------------------- Jan Goebel j g o e b e l @ d i w . d e DIW Berlin German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) Königin-Luise-Str. 5 D-14195 Berlin -- Germany -- phone: 49 30 89789-377 +----------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html