[R-sig-Geo] installing spgrass6

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> BTW: I see the instructions on 
> http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/grass6_r_install.html
> are partly different from what reported in the latest grass news. Perhaps the 
> two versions should be aligned?
> on grass.itc.it:
> 
> install.packages(c("sp","rgdal","maptools"), dependencies=TRUE)
> rS <- "http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/R"
> install.packages(c("spgrass6","spGDAL","spmaptools","spproj"), repos=rS, 
> dependencies=TRUE)
> 
> on GRASS News N. 3:
> install.packages(c("sp","rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE)
> rS <- "http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/R"
> install.packages("spgrass6", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)
> install.packages("spGDAL", repos=rS, dependencies=TRUE)

Maybe, things change quite fast, and at some stage (please do not hold
your breath), the file input/output packages should merge, with a single
GDAL/PROJ.4/OGR dependency. Until then, it's messy, the more who join in
and move things forward the merrier. The CVS for these packages is at the
same place on sourceforge.

Roger

> 
> All the best.
> pc
> 
> At 20:54, lunedì 13 giugno 2005, Paolo Cavallini has probably written:
> > 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.
> > 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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