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

Mon Apr 16 08:15:20 CEST 2012

Dear Prof Ripley,

Thanks for the detail. I will try to install it and let you know.

ahmed

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From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012 3:17 PM
To: Hafi, Ahmed
Cc: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no; r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] can't load rgdal on mac osx [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On 16/04/2012 00:27, Hafi, Ahmed wrote:
> Dear Roger,
>
> Hope the two lines below still work.
>
> seRepositories(ind=1:2)
> install.package('rgdal')
>
>
> I looked at the folder 'http://www.stats.ox.uk/pub/RWin' and still
find
> Rgdal.07-8.tar.gz dated 18 January. I am wondering whether its kept
> somewhere else.

OS X binary packages are .tgz files, and the relevant ones for 2.15.0 
are in
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15/

> I will try installing rgdal and  report back to you later.
>
> Thanks
>
> ahmed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Bivand [mailto:Roger.Bivand at nhh.no]
> Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2012 11:51 PM
> To: Hafi, Ahmed
> Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] can't load rgdal on mac osx
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> CRAN Extras now has versions of rgdal and rgeos built with Lion for R
> 2.15. It is fairly likely that these will work with [Snow] Leopard,
but
> because Apple has dropped the Leopard SDK, this cannot be guaranteed,
> and
> the risk of difficulties for Leopard users will increase as GDAL and
> GEOS
> are remade under Lion.
>
> Please report back (possibly off-list) if the 2.15 CRAN Extras binary
> packages work or do not work, with details of your OSX version.
>
> Thanks again to Prof. Brian Ripley for his support!
>
> Roger
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Roger Bivand wrote:
>
>> 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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