[R-sig-Geo] Why I can't install RGDAL after R 2.12.0 release?

[Roger Bivand]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Daniel wrote:

> Why I can't install RGDAL after R 2.12.0 release?
> I install again GDAL, but I still got the error.

Well, you could start by reading the explanatory message. In addition, you 
have an OSX system (saying so would make things simpler). Beyond that, you 
have not been using a local library in which to install your packages (I 
think) so that when R is upgraded, the old system library is no longer 
visible. This is a very good reason to use a local library - upgrading R 
does not then remove your installed contributed libraries.

The message says that gdal-config cannot be found. Find it, and add its 
path to the configure argument.

Hope this helps,

Roger

PS. On OSX, if installing the rgdal source package is impractical, 
consider installing binary packages either using Kyngchaos:

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

for R 2.10 or 2.11 (not 2.12 yet), or (with fewer drivers) in R say:

setRepositories(ind=1:2)
install.packages("rgdal")

from CRAN extras for leopard+.

>
> Daniel
>
> downloaded 1.4 Mb
>
> * installing *source* package ?rgdal? ...
> gdal-config: gdal-config
> Error: gdal-config not found
> The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
> If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
> download the source from  http://www.gdal.org/
> 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, use:
> --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config' echo with
> appropriate values for your installation.
>
> ./configure: line 1311: gdal-config: command not found
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?rgdal?
> * removing
> ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/rgdal?
>
>

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Roger Bivand
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