[R] Installing RGDAL on CentOS v.6.2

Shouro Dasgupta shouro at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 11:30:28 CEST 2015


Dear Eric,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I don't have NetBSD on the cluster
and considering the size of my dataset, I can't utilise my local machine.

Does it make a difference that the R installed on the cluster is up-to-date
if I do want to compile everything from tar.gz? Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Shouro

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Eric Brown <brown at fastmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Shouro,
>
> I can confirm that I have installed GDAL (and RGDAL) on CentOS 6.4, 6.5,
> and 6.6.
>
> But quite frankly, these systems have such old versions of software that
> I spent a fair amount of time compiling everything up from tar.gz.
>
> This is exhausting, so I spent some time learning NetBSD's pkgsrc--and
> now recommend this wonderful package manager to anyone caught in a
> situation where they don't have root privileges, but need to bring an
> old CentOS to have modern versions of software and all its dependencies.
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
> Shouro Dasgupta <shouro at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Dear all,
>>
>> I have access to an IBM IDataplex Cluster with CentOS v.6.2. R 3.2.1 is
>> currently installed. I was wondering if there was any way to install RGDAL
>> on it? Thanks!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Shouro
>>
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