[R-sig-Geo] RGDAL PROBLEM IN R-STUDIO

[Roger Bivand]

Thanks for helpful feedback. I've added your solution to the inst/README 
file in the package.

Roger

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Eduardo Bieñkowski wrote:

> Hi all.
> For those who had the same problem:
> The solution was:
> In Ubuntu
> sudo apt-get install-dev libgdal1
> sudo apt-get install-dev libproj
>
> and then, install the package rgdal in RStudio
> Thanks
> Eduardo
>
>
> 2012/12/4 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
>
>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Swagath wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Did you try this;
>>>
>>> setRepositories(ind=1:2)
>>> install.packages(‘rgdal’)
>>> library(rgdal)
>>>
>>> source: http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/7852679/trouble-**
>>> loading-rgdal-in-rstudio<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7852679/trouble-loading-rgdal-in-rstudio>
>>>
>>
>> A splendid example of why stackoverflow is rarely the correct answer for
>> anything. Not only is this "solution" deprecated in that OSX rgdal is now
>> on CRAN, not CRAN Extras - so out of date by many months (that thread
>> October 2011), but just googling and then quoting the stackoverflow
>> "solution" misses the important point that the stackoverflow thread applied
>> to:
>>
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_**64 (64-bit)
>>
>> as you see if you read the beginning of the thread, whereas our questioner
>> has:
>>
>> /home/usuario/R/x86_64-pc-**linux-gnu-library/2.15/
>>
>> (but did not state the output of sessionInfo(), so may actually not be
>> running Linux, who knows?). The correct reply, given by Ashton, is the
>> package external dependencies (SystemRequirements) must be installed before
>> installing the rgdal source package. The thing anyone should do in such a
>> situation is to visit the CRAN page of the package:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/**packages/rgdal/index.html<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html>
>>
>> for pointers. The inst/README file included in the source package provides
>> further guidance.
>>
>> @RStudio: Probably RStudio should be more careful in permitting source
>> installs for packages that declare SystemRequirements, and have ./configure
>> files.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> PS. I really like Bruce Schreier's term "United States of Convenience"
>> with regard to users' assumptions about the systems we offer:
>>
>> http://www.schneier.com/blog/**archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.**html<http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.html>
>> http://www.wired.com/opinion/**2012/11/feudal-security/<http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/feudal-security/>
>>
>> In R, you have freedom, convenience is and should be an optional extra,
>> expecially if it gets in the way "real work".
>>
>> PPS. Navin didn't quote the thread, it is here:
>>
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/**pipermail/r-sig-geo/2012-**December/016852.html<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2012-December/016852.html>
>>
>>
>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Navin
>>>
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Roger Bivand
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Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
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e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no