[BioC] plotrix - install is failing

[alison waller]

install.packages("plotrix")

I also tried using the source package
R CMD INSTALL plotrix_3.2-3.tar.gz

both of them seemed to stall at installing help indices.
I cancelled after about 45 minutes of waiting.

I tried to load the library incase the functions were loaded.  But
> library(plotrix)
Error in library(plotrix) : there is no package called 'plotrix'

Any knowledge about the status of this package or such errors would be
great.

Alison