[R-sig-Geo] ERROR: dependency ‘png’ is not available for package ‘RgoogleMaps’

[Anisha Kaul]

On 16 July 2012 17:26, Joona Lehtomäki <joona.lehtomaki at cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Hi Anisha,
>
> I think R CMD INSTALL does not install the dependencies (i.e. package png)
> from CRAN. Is there a reason why you want to install RgoogleMaps from a
> local tar-file? Installing from within R using the command
>
>> install.packages("RgoogleMaps")
>
> will install all the dependencies as well. Note that package png may have
> further dependencies (libpng and/or libpng-devel) on your system.

I am currently not familiar with the R commands. I just tried your way
out and it worked.
Thanks for being helpful.


Regards,
Anisha.