[R-SIG-Mac] rgdal on mac os 10.9

[Rainer M Krug]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On 30/04/2014 13:56, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, the installation from source was quite easy:
>> apart from the usual compilers, you need gdal installed, which installs
>> easily via homebrew [1]. After this, installation of rgdal from source
>> worked without any additional configurations?
>
> No, not really.
>
> 1) for a portable package you will need static GDAL.
>
> 2) GDAL can make use of a wide range of external software to read
> raster files: without quite a lot of the optional ones it is not much
> use for rgdal and other R packages.  Simon needs to build that for
> Mavericks, and statically too.

Sorry - I was talking of installing it in R via type="source" not on
CRAN. For CRAN it is definitely a different issue.


Rainer

>
> However, Fellows has ignored all the advice to use the Snow Leopard
> package of R 3.1.0 if he wants rgdal.  That is in the current manual
> (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-OS-X)
> and was posted to this list recently
> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-April/010835.html).
> That is by far the easiest solution.
>
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> Ian Fellows <ian.fellows at stat.ucla.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there are plans to have rgdal compile correctly on
>>> the CRAN Mavericks machine? I’ve really been enjoying the binaries
>>> that have been available as building from source is a non-trival
>>> hassle.
>>>
>>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks/rgdal-00check.html
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Ian
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>>
>> Footnotes:
>> [1]  http://brew.sh/
>>
>>
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