[R-sig-Geo] problem for installing "rgdal" package in r

[Ben Madin]

Yung-wei,

If you read through this, it is one of the more instructive error messages you are likely to receive, so I would suggest that you work through the steps it suggests. 

My guess is that if you are on a shared machine, the gdal libraries are not installed, and you will have to speak to your administrators about installing them.

> ./configure: line 2013: gdal-config: command not found
> 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/

You may need to get help from admins to do this on a shared machine.

> 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'
> with appropriate values for your installation.

You will have to look at the help for install.packages for details on how to do this - watch out for the quoting.

cheers

Ben






On 06/09/2011, at 1:03 PM, 陳 永偉 wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>  
> Thanks for your remider and the following is the whole information I got:
>  
>  
>  
> Installing package(s) into ‘/home/yungweichen/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/src/contrib/rgdal_0.7-1.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1432509 bytes (1.4 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1.4 Mb
> * installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
> gdal-config: gdal-config
> ./configure: line 2013: gdal-config: command not found
> 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'
> with appropriate values for your installation.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
> * removing ‘/home/yungweichen/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/rgdal’
> The downloaded packages are in
>  ‘/tmp/RtmpjttzmJ/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("rgdal") :
>   installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Yung-wei
> 
>  
> > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] problem for installing "rgdal" package in r
> > From: lists at remoteinformation.com.au
> > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:51:49 +0800
> > CC: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> > To: robin50488 at hotmail.com
> > 
> > At a guess your error message was slightly longer than you have posted below - which only says that the install failed. 
> > 
> > The more information you provide the better your chances of help...
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
> > On 06/09/2011, at 12:27 PM, 陳 永偉 wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am a begginner using R in Linux system and I am doing some spatial
> > > research. Recently, I tried to install "rgdal" package in Linux system but
> > > I got the error message "installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit
> > > status".
> > > It is impossible I can update the version of R because it is our
> > > department system. Therefore, I wonder if there is any other ways to
> > > install package.
> > > Can you help me to deal with this problem? Thank you in advance.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yung-wei Chen
> > > 
> > > 
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