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
 



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