[R-sig-Geo] cannot install rgeos

[Martin Ivanov]

Dear R users, Dear Prof. Bivand,

I am happy to inform You that I managed to solve the problem with the 
rgeos and rgdal installation on the Linux cluster in one shot. Actually 
the problem came from the lack of the binutils package. I had compiled 
the system geos and gdal packages without usage of binutils, hence those 
linker errors. After I loaded the
binutils by "module load compiler/binutils/2.19.1", compiled geos and 
gdal, the installation of
rgeos and rgdal in R went flawless.

Dear Prof. Bivand, I need the Linux cluster because I am going to do 
interpolation of monthly data
for 50 years. The interpolation of each single month on my desktop 
computer takes about 10 minutes. So one can expect that the whole 
procedure is going to take a bit more than 4 days on it, which is not 
very convenient.
That is why I am going to make use of the Linux cluster. There I have 
more RAM and CPU power available for my calculations and I hope to be 
able to submit each decade as a separate job, so that the 5 decades run 
in parallel.

Thank You very much for Your attention and responsiveness.

Best regards,

-- 
Dr. Martin Ivanov
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Water & Earth System Science (WESS)
Keplerstraße 17, 72074 Tübingen, Deutschland
Tel. +4970712975023