[R-sig-Geo] rgdal on Mac OS X 10.6.7

[Ralf Schäfer]

Dear Roger

Am 25.05.2011 um 07:27 schrieb Roger Bivand:

> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Ralf Schäfer wrote:
> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I tried to install rgdal in R 2.13.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.7 but it keeps failing no matter if I install from source or binary.
> 
> You have not said how you installed rgdal - CRAN extras binary, Kyngchaos binary on Kyngchaos frameworks, source install on Kyngchaos frameworks, or source on GDAL source build.

I installed from Kyngchaos binary and and when this failed from source on the kyngchaos frameworks. I actually updated to the GDAL framework 1.8 from kyngchaos.
However, it works on my Mac Pro in the office - so is obviously an issue with some iodb drivers

> The dependency is not from rgdal directly, but rather from GDAL as loaded by rgdal.
> 
> The standard OSX install is to use the binary package directly, by ensuring that the CRAN extras repository is being searched:
> 
> setRepositories(ind=1:2)
> install.packages("rgdal")

That works - thanks!
Ralf