virtualenv_install packages spacy killed in RStudio Cloud

[sharpay]

I tried using virtualenv_install() to install the spaCy package. But it stops with the error message "Killed".

Any advice how to fix this? Thanks.

[josh]

At a guess you are exceeding the current memory limit of 1 GB. I am not certain why installation of lots of Python packages would cause that.

You could try installing some of those packages individually and see if that gets you past the error.

[sharpay]

Hello thanks for the reply, I already tried to install those packages individually, but still I get the same error.

[josh]

It is definitely running out of memory installing just spacy.

After the initial failure, I was able to work around this by going to the Terminal, activating the reticulate virtualenv, and installing spacy from the source wheel:

$ . r-reticulate/bin/activate
$ pip install --verbose spacy --no-cache-dir --no-binary=:all:

[sharpay]

Thank you. It works now....