[Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 17:59:51 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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

Ooops!  Thanks for figuring that out.

Hadley

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