[R] Environmental Data Connector v1.3

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

> On Aug 3, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Robert in SA <ri.williamson at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello. I have "successfully" installed EDC v1.3 on linux ubuntu 14.04. I am
> running a 64bit machine with R 3.2.1 via Rstudio. I have tried "> example1
> <- EDC.get(1)" after loading the ncdf and EDCR libraries, from both the R
> terminal and Rstudio and get the following result:
> 
> Error in setwd(paste(Sys.getenv("EDC_HOME"), sep = "")) : 
>  cannot change working directory
> 
> During installation EDC_HOME was set to /home/robert/EDC and the directory
> definitely exists. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> 

Bringing this back on list so that the solution is on record , the problem is that EDC_HOME was not set when the install was done.  We are looking into whether this is a problem with the installer.

In the meantime, if this problem pops-up again, use:

 Sys.setenv(EDC_HOME="/your/EDC/home/directory”)

Many thanks to Bill Dunlop of Tibco for help on solving this.  He also notes:

> Yes.  You can set EDC_HOME on your .Rprofile or Renviron (sp?) files.
> See help(Startup) for details.
> 


-Roy


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