[R] Error Installing packages

Sat Apr 27 18:04:48 CEST 2013

On 26.04.2013 19:15, Pramod Anugu wrote:
> I am trying to install the package boss but i am getting error below:
> Please advice

Well, it says

configure: error: netcdf header netcdf.h not found

so perhaps you do not have the netcdf headers installed?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

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> install.packages("boss")
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> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
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> 1: 0-Cloud                       2: Argentina (La Plata)
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> 3: Argentina (Mendoza)           4: Australia (Canberra)
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> 5: Australia (Melbourne)         6: Austria
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> 7: Belgium                       8: Brazil (PR)
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> 9: Brazil (RJ)                  10: Brazil (SP 1)
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> 11: Brazil (SP 2)                12: Canada (BC)
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> 13: Canada (NS)                  14: Canada (ON)
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> 15: Canada (QC 1)                16: Canada (QC 2)
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> 17: Chile                        18: China (Beijing 1)
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> 19: China (Beijing 2)            20: China (Guangzhou)
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> 21: China (Hefei)                22: China (Xiamen)
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> 23: Colombia (Bogota)            24: Colombia (Cali)
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> 25: Denmark                      26: Ecuador
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> 27: France (Lyon 1)              28: France (Lyon 2)
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> 29: France (Montpellier)         30: France (Paris 1)
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> 33: Germany (Bonn)               34: Germany (Falkenstein)
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> Selection: 86
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> also installing the dependency 'ncdf'
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> trying URL 'http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/src/contrib/ncdf_1.6.6.tar.gz'
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> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 79403 bytes (77 Kb)
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> opened URL
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> ==================================================
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> downloaded 77 Kb
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> trying URL 'http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/src/contrib/boss_1.2.tar.gz'
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> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 9702 bytes
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> opened URL
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> ==================================================
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> downloaded 9702 bytes
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> * installing *source* package 'ncdf' ...
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> ** package 'ncdf' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
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> checking for nc-config... no
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> checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
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> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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> checking for suffix of executables...
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> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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> checking for suffix of object files... o
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> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
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> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
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> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
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> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
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> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
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> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
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> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
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> checking for sys/types.h... yes
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> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
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> checking for stdlib.h... yes
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> checking for string.h... yes
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> checking for memory.h... yes
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> checking for strings.h... yes
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> checking for inttypes.h... yes
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> checking for stdint.h... yes
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> checking for unistd.h... yes
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> checking netcdf.h usability... no
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> checking netcdf.h presence... no
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> checking for netcdf.h... no
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> configure: error: netcdf header netcdf.h not found
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> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ncdf'
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> * removing '/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib64/R/library/ncdf'
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> ERROR: dependency 'ncdf' is not available for package 'boss'
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> * removing '/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib64/R/library/boss'
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> The downloaded source packages are in
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>          '/tmp/RtmppOWF74/downloaded_packages'
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> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
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> Making packages.html  ... done
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> Warning messages:
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> 1: In install.packages("boss") :
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>    installation of package 'ncdf' had non-zero exit status
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> 2: In install.packages("boss") :
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>    installation of package 'boss' had non-zero exit status
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