[R-sig-Geo] Trying to install rgdal from source on Windows 7 (and failing)

[Cynthia Hart]

Ah.  So, at the least I am not missing something obvious.  But I had 
missed knowing about the Window PostGIS tools!  Thank you, Roger; what 
you suggest sounds like a good route for me to take, for the time being.

Cynthia

On 9/19/2014 1:15 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dutrieux, Loic wrote:
>
>> You may try some steps documented in the README.windows file, 
>> included in the package sources. 
>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/inst/README.windows?view=markup&root=rgdal
>
> Thank you for pointing to this file.
>
>> But note that the file has not been updated in a little while. I 
>> can't tell whether this is still likely to work or not...
>>
>
> This is correct.
>
> My feeling is that installing rgdal from source on Windows is going to 
> take (much) more time learning about compilers and their peculiarities 
> than using command line utilities distributed in the PostGIS bundle 
> for Windows:
>
> http://postgis.net/windows_downloads
>
> There shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp are mentioned, but as GDAL is also 
> installed, ogr2ogr would let you use other intermediate file formats 
> than ESRI Shapefiles, provided that the drivers are in the rgdal 
> Windows binary package. Writing a small R function to run and check 
> system() or system2() to run the command line utilities from inside R 
> will be much easier than installing rgdal from source unless you know 
> a lot about the compliers used with PostGIS and R. It also removes 
> concerns that some components may be 32-bit or 64-bit.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Roger
>
>> Cheers,
>> Loïc
>> ________________________________________
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>> [r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Cynthia Hart 
>> [cyndyh at nmsu.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:34 PM
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>> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Trying to install rgdal from source on Windows 7 
>> (and      failing)
>>
>> I have been using the (wonderfully useful) rgdal package for some time
>> now, but I now have a need to incorporate rgdal with PostGIS/PostgreSQL,
>> so, I find that I need more drivers than were included with the CRAN
>> release version of rdgal that I was using.  I have GDAL already
>> installed.   However, I am unable to build rgdal from source.  I have
>> the rgdal_0.8-16.tar file, and when I try to run install.packages from
>> this tar file, I get"
>>
>>        install.packages("C:\\JORNADA\\rgdal_0.8-16.tar", repos = 
>> NULL, type="source")
>>        Installing package into 
>> ‘C:/Users/cynthart/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
>>        (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>>        * installing *source* package 'rgdal' ...
>>        ** package 'rgdal' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> *       cp: cannot stat `/share/proj': No such file or directory
>>        cp: cannot stat `/share/gdal': No such file or directory*
>>        ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
>>        * removing 'C:/Users/cynthart/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/rgdal'
>>        Warning in install.packages :
>>        running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD 
>> INSTALL -l "C:\Users\cynthart\Doc uments\R\win-library\3.0" 
>> "C:/JORNADA/rgdal_0.8-16.tar"' had status 1
>>        Warning in install.packages :
>>        installation of package ‘C:/JORNADA/rgdal_0.8-16.tar’ had 
>> non-zero exit status
>>
>> I basically understand the error, but I do not know how to go about 
>> 'fixing' it.  Can anyone please point me in the right direction?  
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
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