install.packages R on Ubuntu 12.04 downloads but does not install packages

Question

I\'m perplexed. I\'ve done this process a dozen times and never had this issue.

I installed the latest version of R for Ubuntu

I enter R, no issues at all,

Answer 1

@jdharrison helped out. The problem was insufficient memory on the VPS I was running, so I added some swap as described here:

How do you add swap to an EC2 instance?