[R-sig-Debian] Install rgdal, lazy loading error

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 17/10/12 22:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> OB On 17 October 2012 at 15:29, Ben Weinstein wrote: | Hi dirk, | | Thanks for your response! I
> appreciate all help. I can see that the file does | not exist. I'm wondering on what level this
> error is occurring  with the | rgdal package, with the gdal source or with the proj source. I
> believe it is | the rgdal package. Are you familiar with this package, perhaps there is a |
> stable version that i should find. I was able to overcome the other errors, but | as you note
> the error simply notifies me that a file does not exist.
> 
> I am not really familiar with gdal and the spatial stack, but as this has come before, I did in
> fact verify at some point or other that the packages "just build" in my (fairly standard Ubuntu
> / Debian) environment.
> 
> Which they do -- as CRAN tests (among other systems) on a stock Debian testing too.
> 
> Now, on my box, I have
> 
> edd at max:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libgdal* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17832142 Nov 24  2011
> /usr/lib/libgdal1.7.0.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       22 Nov 24  2011 /usr/lib/libgdal1.7.0.so
> -> libgdal1.7.0.so.1.14.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       22 Nov 24  2011
> /usr/lib/libgdal1.7.0.so.1 -> libgdal1.7.0.so.1.14.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8148488 Nov 24
> 2011 /usr/lib/libgdal1.7.0.so.1.14.3 edd at max:~$
> 
> And the soft link with the trailing .1 and .1.14.3 are typically added by the package
> management system when the -dev package is installed.
> 
> Your situation is a little different as you have local libraries. To that extent, the list is
> not really a good source of help for your non-standard problem.

May I suggest to post to r-sig-geo, as that list is concerned with, among others, rgdal?

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Dirk
> 
> | Thanks again for your help, | | Ben | | | On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel
> <edd at debian.org> wrote: | | |     On 17 October 2012 at 14:19, Ben Weinstein wrote: |     | Hi
> all, |     | |     | I have successfully made and installed both gdal, and proj.4, but still |
> | cannot get rgdal to be installed in R. I think i'm very close. I do not |     | have root
> access, if that matters, i've installed everything locally. I'm |     | using debian on a
> beowulf cluster. |     | |     | I call: |     | |     | install.packages("rgdal",
> .libPaths()[1], configure.args = |     |
> "--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config |     |
> --with-proj-include=/nfs/user08/bw4sz/include |     | --with-proj-lib=/nfs/user08/bw4sz/lib") |
> | |     | i've defeated the gdal-config and the api_proj.h file errors that have |     |
> plagued others. Now i believe i've run into a smaller problem. |     | |     | The package
> downloads and installs but it fails the lazy loading test |     | |     | |     | ** R |     |
> ** inst |     | ** preparing package for lazy loading |     | ** help |     | *** installing
> help indices |     | ** building package indices ... |     | ** testing if installed package
> can be loaded |     | Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : |     |   unable to
> load shared object |     | '/nfs/user08/bw4sz/library/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so': |     |
> libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or |     directory | |     The
> dynamic linker thinks there should be a file (or a softlink) resolve |     libgdal.so.1, yet
> there is none. | |     You need to address that issue. | |     Dirk | |     | Error: loading
> failed |     | |     | with the R.Version() |     | |     | > R.Version() |     | $platform |
> | [1] "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" |     | |     | $arch |     | [1] "x86_64" |     | |     |
> $os |     | [1] "linux-gnu" |     | |     | $system |     | [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu" |     | |
> | $status |     | [1] "" |     | |     | $major |     | [1] "2" |     | |     | $minor |     |
> [1] "14.2" |     | |     | $year |     | [1] "2012" |     | |     | $month |     | [1] "02" |
> | |     | $day |     | [1] "29" |     | |     | $`svn rev` |     | [1] "58522" |     | |     |
> $language |     | [1] "R" |     | |     | $version.string |     | [1] "R version 2.14.2
> (2012-02-29)" |     | |     | Any thoughts are appreciated, |     | |     | Best, |     | |
> | ben |     | |     | please forgive cross-posting on R-sig geo for those who subscribe to |
> both. |     | |     | Ben Weinstein |     | Graduate Student |     | Ecology and Evolution |
> | Stony Brook University |     | |     | http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~bweinste/index.html |
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> -- |     Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | | | | | -- | Ben
> Weinstein | Graduate Student | Ecology and Evolution | Stony Brook University | |
> http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~bweinste/index.html |
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