[R] package installation failure virtualisation environment

[Sven E. Templer]

Prevent graphic menues with:
options(menu.graphics = FALSE)
or and define repositories:
options(repos = c(CRAN = "http://cran.r-project.org"))

On 14 October 2014 17:00,  <rl at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Subscribers,
>
> A version of R is installed in a virtual machine, which has complete
> internet access via the host.
>
> The following error occurs when a package is selected:
>
> install.packages([packagename], dependencies=TRUE)
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Killed
>
> The error also occurs with:
>
> install.packages()
>
> The process is killed as shown previously (but not the R session), after
> selection of a package in the Tcl/tk dialogue window.
>
> The error occurs both as root and normal user.
>
> Any suggestions please to solve?
>
> R.version
>                _
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          3
> minor          1.1
> year           2014
> month          07
> day            10
> svn rev        66115
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
> nickname       Sock it to Me
>
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