[R-sig-Geo] can't load rgdal on mac osx [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Roger Bivand]

The problem that you report is caused by a terminal hardware failure of 
the Leopard machine used to build the CRAN Extras OSX binaries, so that 
rgdal and rgeos binaries for OSX have not been built for R 2.15. If OSX 
users of the CRAN Extras rgdal and rgeos binaries upgrade to 2.15 and 
install the apparently correct 2.15 rgdal (or rgeos), it will fail to load 
because it was itself built against R 2.14 - the case reported in this 
posting.

Until a new build machine is in place, please revert to R 2.14, or delay 
upgrading to 2.15 if the CRAN extras binary packages are your prefered 
method of installation. More information will follow as soon as the 
situation is normalised.

R 2.15 users who install rgdal from source linking to the Kyngchaos GDAL 
frameworks will be able to use rgdal in 2.15.

We trust that this has nothing to do with the date - the older Leopard OSX 
machine failed about two weeks ago!

Roger

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Hafi, Ahmed wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I am running R on a macbook pro with mac osx lion and trying to do some
> spatial modelling with R. I have run into a problem in loading rgdal. I
> understand that the installation of rgdal in mac is different from other
> packages and followed the instructions given in CRAN rgdal page updated
> in last January. The rgdal downloaded successfully but didn't appear to
> get installed successfully and failed to load.  I have copied the screen
> print segment below. Is it because of the difference in mac osx version
> I am using? I would appreciate if someone could interpret it and suggest
> what should I do to get rgdal loaded.  I am desperate to use the
> functions of this package.
>
>
>
> setRepositories(ind=1:2)
>
>> install.packages('rgdal')
>
> trying URL
> 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15/rgda
> l_0.7-8.tgz'
>
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13818239 bytes (13.2 Mb)
>
> opened URL
>
> ==================================================
>
> downloaded 13.2 Mb
>
>
>
>
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>
>
> /var/folders/17/452p64r17tj_p4y6gmpw5h4c0000gn/T//Rtmp3v4WEZ/downloaded_
> packages
>
>> library(rgdal)
>
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>
> unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/rgdal/l
> ibs/x86_64/rgdal.so':
>
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/r
> gdal/libs/x86_64/rgdal.so, 6): Library not loaded:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>
>  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/rgdal/li
> bs/x86_64/rgdal.so
>
>  Reason: image not found
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rgdal'
>
>
>
> **********************************************************
>
>
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Ahmed Hafi
>
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