[Rd] Orphaned ncvar? (PR#9603)

[chatfield at clio.arc.nasa.gov]

>
An orphaned package?  anyone in Switzerland know if there's an  
alternative?
Note the email.
I guess CRAN-R should be notified.

regards, Bob C

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> Could you help? The notes are just too telegraphic.
>
> I keep getting missing packages  or missing main in netdcdf messages
> in my attempts to install.
>
> Macintosh OS X (10.4)  this happens to be old-chip PowerPC ...  
> other install will be new-chip Intel
>
>
> * binaries are listed on all the R mirrors, but they uniformly fail  
> to work
>
> * I've tried to build these from source, but need netcdf.
>
> I see this ---
>
> Note
> The NetCDF and the udunits library must be already installed on the  
> system.
> Author(s)
> Pavel Michna
>
> but the installs don't work ...at configure stage.
>
> I have downloaded netcdf using the fink package manner (debian- 
> linux like)
> which creates files in
> /sw/lib
> and
> /sw/include
>
> but have not been able to get these recognized by R at compile time,
> even after using .libPaths("/sw/include")  for the new library and  
> confirming
> it with .libPaths()
>
> Either they are missing the library or cannot find "main" or  
> something.
>
> If we are to build these ourselves, it would be great to find out  
> just how
> to get libraries recognized in the documentation, ... or for there  
> to be binaries.
>
> If you have notes within the .tgz files, I have not found those.
>
> Please, help ! ;-)
> regards, Bob C
>
> 	
>
>
> Dr. Robert Chatfield
> Earth Sciences, MS 245-5
> NASA Ames Research Center
> Moffett Field, CA 94035    USA
>
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