[R] Error in .C("open_netcdf"

[Uwe Ligges]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:56:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote in message
> <Pine.A41.4.44.0306160655350.240824-100000 at homer04.u.washington.edu>:
> 
> 
>> Does the Windows version include libnetcdf, and if not, what
>>would the symptoms be if it were not present?
> 
> 
> Windows doesn't include it.  I just tried building from source, and it
> failed because of that.
> 
> When I ask Rgui to install from CRAN, it doesn't see netCDF  ---  this
> means that Uwe hasn't built the binary for it, which probably means
> some manual intervention is needed.
> 
> My conclusion:  netCDF isn't available for Windows 1.7 or greater,
> until someone tracks down the pieces and adds them.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

Right, manual intervention is needed, i.e. installing the dependencies 
of netCDF.

Please read the Readme on CRAN (CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/ReadMe) 
which says:

"The packages SJava, XML, gstat, netCDF, and xgobi are available at
  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin
kindly provided by Professor Brian D. Ripley."

Uwe Ligges