[R-sig-Geo] installing spgrass6

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Great, that helped a lot. But now I get
> 
> ./configure: line 1111: gdal-config: command not found
> 
> I was unable to find the gdal-config script distributed with
> GDAL. If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
> download the source from  http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
> If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
> gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
> shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, find it and add its
> path to your shell path.
> 
> I checked, and I cannot locate gdal-config anywhere in my box (gdal installed 
> from debian package).
> I volunteer to improve the page at 
> http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/grass6_r_install.html
> when I'll succeed.

Mine is:

$ which gdal-config
/usr/local/bin/gdal-config

but I install from source. 

$ locate gdal-config

found lots, mostly in the build trees. 

$ file `which gdal-config`
/usr/local/bin/gdal-config: Bourne shell script text executable

and reading it shows that it is written at build time and says where all 
the good GDAL things reside.

If you can't find it, I can build a spgrass6 without the rgdal dependency, 
but rgdal is worth having anyway, especially if you have the GRASS plugin.

Best wishes,

Roger



> All the best.
> pc
> 
> At 20:32, lunedì 13 giugno 2005, Roger Bivand has probably written:
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Tim Keitt wrote:
> > > You need to set the CRAN option to point to a mirror. The latest
> > > versions of R don't provide a default mirror anymore.
> >
> > Yes, if capabilities(c("tcltk", "X11")) are not TRUE, (like trying to
> > install on a server with no X11 display set), then there is no automatic
> > fallback from R trying to start tcltk to show a list of CRANs. The same
> > list is shown going to CRAN from http://www.r-project.org, so
> > install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE,
> > repos="http://cran.arsmachinandi.it/") or one of the other Italian
> > mirrors should get you there.
> >
> > The help page for options says:
> >
> >      'repos': The URLs of the repositories for use by
> >           'update.packages'.  Defaults to 'c(CRAN="@CRAN@")', a value
> >           that causes some utilities to prompt for a CRAN mirror.  To
> >           avoid this, use something like
> >           'options(repos=c(CRAN="http://my.local.cran/R"))'.
> >
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > > THK
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 19:51 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > > > Hi all.
> > > > Dunno whether this is the right place to ask, but I am trying to
> > > > install spgrass6 on an updated debian testing box, and I start with:
> > > >
> > > > install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE)
> > > >
> > > > but I get
> > > >
> > > > Avviso in install.packages(c("sp", "rgdal"), dependencies = TRUE) :
> > > >          argument 'lib' is missing: using /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
> > > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > > > Errore in inherits(x, "factor") : oggetto "res" non trovato
> > > >
> > > > Any hint would be greaatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > All the best.
> > > > pc
> 
> 

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