[R] Regarding rgdal package installation in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/10/2013 13:48, S Ellison wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I'm in-need of rgdal installation for R in our CentOS 6 machine to
>> handle shapefiles.
>
> Is there any reason that you cannot run
>> install.packages("rgdal")
>
> which would be the recommended way to install a package with all dependencies automatically downloaded and installed?

Not the system software dependencies.  For rgdal that is GDAL and PROJ.4 
(and its databases).  On any competent RPM-based system yum etc will 
download all their dependencies automatically.  For Fedora 18 all I 
needed was

yum install gdal-devel proj-devel proj-nad

I'd ask again on r-sig-geo if that fails.

> If you cannot do that, review the CRAN page for the packages which rgdal Depends on or Imports, and make sure those are also installed. Similarly, for each of those.
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> S Ellison
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