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

[Julian Zeidler]

Hi Yung-wei,

I had simislar Problems when first isntalling rgdal on my machine. It is 
due to missing (Linux-)Packages, that R needs to compile its bindings 
with gdal.
In my case ( on a Ubuntu System) the required packages where:  gdal-bin, 
libgdal1-dev, libproj-dev, build-essential. There might have been more 
or i had previously installed them. If you are on a different 
Distribution the names might be slightly different, but your Admin 
should be able to figure it out.

best,
Julian


Am 06.09.2011 07:55, schrieb 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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