[Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Oct 3 16:32:10 CEST 2008


On 10/3/2008 10:14 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
> $ R CMD install ggplot2
> ...
>   scale-usage-d1                    text    html    latex
>   scale_brewer                      text    html    latex   example
> perl(90227) malloc: *** mmap(size=314880000) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> Out of memory!
> ERROR: building help failed for package 'ggplot2'
> 
> Any ideas?  That particular file is
> http://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/tree/master/man/scale_brewer.rd, but
> I can't see any reason it would be causing problems.  The whole
> package is available at http://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/
> 
> Hadley
> 

What OS is this, what Perl?

Duncan Murdoch



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