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

If your server does not have enough ram, R can not install packages.

The solution is to either increase the physical ram, or increase the size of the swap file.

Create a 2 gig swap file

sudo fallocate -l 2G /swap.img
sudo mkswap /swap.img
sudo swapon /swap.img

You can see how much free swap is available with the swapon command

root@foo:# swapon -s
Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority
/swap.img                               file        2097148 213388  -1