On 27.06.2010 17:48, Geoffrey Smith wrote:
Hello, I am trying to update the mgcv package on my Linux box and I keep
getting an "Out of memory!" error.  Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Below is a snippet of the message that I keep getting:  Thank you.  Geoff

** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  >>>  Building/Updating help pages for package 'mgcv'
      Formats: text html latex example
   Predict.matrix                    text    html    latex   example
   Predict.matrix.cr.smooth          text    html    latex   example
   Tweedie                           text    html    latex   example
   anova.gam                         text    html    latex   example
   bam                               text    html    latex   example
   bam.update                        text    html    latex   example
   cSplineDes                        text    html    latex   example
   choose.k                          text    html    latex   example
   exclude.too.far                   text    html    latex   example
   extract.lme.cov                   text    html    latex   example
   fix.family.link                   text    html    latex
   fixDependence                     text    html    latex   example
   formXtViX                         text    html    latex
   formula.gam                       text    html    latex
   full.score                        text    html    latex
   gam                               text    html    latex   example
   gam.check                         text    html    latex   example
   gam.control                       text    html    latex
   gam.convergence                   text    html    latex
   gam.fit                           text    html    latex
   gam.fit3                          text    html    latex
   gam.models                        text    html    latex   example
   gam.outer                         text    html    latex
   gam.selection                     text    html    latex   example
   gam.side                          text    html    latex   example
   gam.vcomp                         text    html    latex   example
   gam2objective                     text    html    latex
   gamObject                         text    html    latex
Out of memory!



This comes probably from perl.
Can you try to upgrade to a recent version of R please? Yours is at least one year old and has still the old help system. It may be the case that the new mgcv is not compatible with the old help system.

Uwe Ligges



ERROR: building help failed for package ‘mgcv’
* Removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/mgcv’
* Restoring previous ‘/usr/lib/R/library/mgcv’

The downloaded packages are in
     ‘/tmp/Rtmp9H7LN8/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =
contriburl,  :
   installation of package 'mgcv' had non-zero exit status

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]




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