[R] package installation failure virtualisation environment

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Subscribers,

A version of R is installed in a virtual machine, which has complete 
internet access via the host.

The following error occurs when a package is selected:

install.packages([packagename], dependencies=TRUE)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Killed

The error also occurs with:

install.packages()

The process is killed as shown previously (but not the R session), after 
selection of a package in the Tcl/tk dialogue window.

The error occurs both as root and normal user.

Any suggestions please to solve?

R.version
                _
platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status
major          3
minor          1.1
year           2014
month          07
day            10
svn rev        66115
language       R
version.string R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
nickname       Sock it to Me