[Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Fri Oct 3 17:12:39 CEST 2008



Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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?

Arbitrary.

Problem is that Hadley uses

  \code{\link{\code{\link{....}}}}

in files scale_continuous.rd and scale_date.rd

Hadley,  the line
    scale_brewer                      text    html    latex   example
shows that help for scale_brewer has been build already.

Best wishes,
Uwe


> Duncan Murdoch
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