[R] problem configuring package udunits

[Bradley Christoffersen]

Hi R Users,

I am new to running R on a Linux platform (I'm used to Windows) - I'm running R
2.7.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) as sudo (without Emacs).  My architecture is
Pentium D (x86_64).

I am having problems successsfully configuring the downloaded package 'udunits'.
 When I execute

>  install.packages("udunits", lib="/usr/local/lib/R/library")

I get the following result:


trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/udunits_1.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 29985 bytes (29 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 29 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'udunits' ...
creating cache ./config.cache
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler...
no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for /usr/local/include/udunits.h... no
checking for /usr/include/udunits.h... no
checking for /home/saleskalab/include/udunits.h... no
checking for /usr/local/lib/libudunits.a... no
checking for /usr/lib/libudunits.a... no
checking for /lib/libudunits.a... no
checking for /home/saleskalab/lib/libudunits.a... no
***********************************************************************************
***********************************************************************************
NOTE: udunits package not found!  Either install it in a standard place (/usr or
/usr/local), or edit the file udunits_1.0/udunits/src/Makevars.in and put in the
location where the package is installed.
***********************************************************************************
***********************************************************************************
exit: 1162: Illegal number: -1
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'udunits'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/udunits'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpmhqM2D/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("udunits", lib = "/usr/local/lib/R/library") :
  installation of package 'udunits' had non-zero exit status


I have tried downloading the package manually and running ./configure, but with
the same result.  As the error message suggested, I looked at the file
udunits_1.0/udunits/src/Makevars.in, (contents below), but am not sure what to
modify.

##PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/udunits/header
##PKG_LIBS=-L/path/to/udunits/lib -ludunits

PKG_LIBS=-L at UDUNITS_LIBDIR@ -l at UDUNITS_LIBNAME@
PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I at UDUNITS_INCDIR@


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