[R] rgdal package (Matteo Toro)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The current version of rgdal on CRAN is 0.6-28, not 0.3-5!  The latter 
was never in CRAN, but 0.3-7 dates from 2006.

Is your R version (unstated, see the posting guide) also from 2006?

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, ciccpaol at libero.it wrote:

>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I also tried to download the package from http://sourceforge.
>> net/projects/rgdal/files/  , and tried
>>
>> $ 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
> -
>> 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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