Bioconductor Package Installtion Fails With Writeability Error

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#1

Installing a Bioconductor package such as ClassifyR fails because the installation tries to update some packages but can't overwrite them.

library(BiocManager) # Obtaiin it from CRAN, if not installed.
install("ClassifyR")

The error which happens is "installation path not writeable, unable to update packages: class, codetools".

#2

I don't see the error you quoted, but I do see:

* installing *source* package ‘SummarizedExperiment’ ...
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Killed
* installing *binary* package ‘dplyr’ ...
* DONE (dplyr)
* installing *binary* package ‘tidyr’ ...
* DONE (tidyr)
* installing *source* package ‘MultiAssayExperiment’ ...
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Killed
* installing *source* package ‘ClassifyR’ ...
** R
** data
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Killed

I believe this indicates that it runs out of memory when the package is loaded.

"Killed" error during installation for many packages
#3

I deleted a LOCK directory from a failed installation using the unlink function and now get the same error as you displayed. Could the RAM limit be changed during alpha testing from 1 GB to 2 GB to allow users to test it out in a more realistic setting?

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