[Rd] Orphaned ncvar? (PR#9603)

[Peter Dalgaard]

chatfield at clio.arc.nasa.gov wrote:
> 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
>
>   
This appears confused. Where is the bug in R?

I have difficulties seeing even what it is you're trying to achieve, but 
for one thing, manipulating .libPaths is NOT the way to help anything 
find include files and C libraries (LD_LIBRARY_PATH and configure 
options might be). If the issue is that mail to juerg.schmidli bounces, 
how about looking him up on the net?

    -pd
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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
>>
>> Ph: 650-604-5490  FAX 650-604-3625
>>
>> http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/chatfield
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