install.packages() 由于内存不足而失败？

Question

I have a VPS with Ramnode with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. I have their low memory plan (128mb). I have successfully installed R, but I cannot install any packages from CRAN. This is the result:

> install.packages("Rccp",repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")
Installing package into '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
Killed

And then R is exited automatically. The same happens regardless of which package I try to install. My memory usage is maxed while the installation is in progress, so I imagine that is where the problem is.

In anticipation of this answer, I want to say that I know a simple solution is to purchase a VPS with more memory, but I am looking for a workaround for the package install. For my purposes, R works fine with 128mb memory except for the package installation. I don't want to pay 2x (or more) what I am paying now just so that I can install the packages I need, because after this installation I won't need that extra memory again.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the only fix was to indeed pony up and upgrade the memory available to my VPS. There was no workaround. I did this and was able to install the packages successfully.