[R] rgdal package (Matteo Toro)

[ciccpaol at libero.it]

>Hi everybody,
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>I'm trying to install the "rgdal" package in R, but it seems not possible...
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>i'm typing
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>> install.packages("rgdal")
>Warning in install.packages("rgdal") :
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/home/toro/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.
>9'
>--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>Warning message:
>In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ‘rgdal’ is not available
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>I also tried to download the package from http://sourceforge.
>net/projects/rgdal/files/  , and tried
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>$ R CMD INSTALL /home/toro/Downloads/rgdal_0.3-5.tar.gz
>* Installing to library ‘/home/toro/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9’
>* Installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
>configure: creating ./config.status
>config.status: creating src/Makevars
>** libs
>g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -I/usr/include/gdal -g -DRGDALDEBUG     -fpic  -g 
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>O2 -c gdal-bindings.cpp -o gdal-bindings.o
>gdal-bindings.cpp: In function ‘char* asString(SEXPREC*, int)’:
>gdal-bindings.cpp:28: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
>make: *** [gdal-bindings.o] Error 1
>ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rgdal’
>* Removing ‘/home/toro/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9/rgdal’
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>and this happens also for other versions of gdal  I have downloaded.
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>The biggest problem is that also other packages like spgrass6, spGDAL and 
>spmaptools are dependent from gdal....so i cannot go on....
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>Can I ask you to help me , please??
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>Thank you
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>Matteo
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