[R-SIG-Mac] Package sf 0.5-0 on El Capitan or higher

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Hi All:

My apologies.  Some days the brain kicks in more slowly than others.  I was able to answer my own question.  Since a binary is not on CRAN,  I thought I would document what worked.

1.  Get the needed frameworks from:

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

Make certain you have GDAL, GEOS and PROJ installed.  By default they are installed in /Library/Frameworks.

2.  Download the source file from CRAN. 

3. In a terminal, change directory to where the source file is located.

4.  R CMD INSTALL sf_0.5-0.tar.gz --configure-args='-with-gdal-config=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/2.1/unix/bin/gdal-config -with-geos-config=/Library/Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Versions/3/unix/bin/geos-config'

If your version of the GDAL framework is different,  make the obvious change.

Is they any way to just directly get a binary on CRAN,  or only if they can build it on the CRAN machine?

Thanks,

-Roy

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 8:12 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> I am interesting in getting the latest version of the package SF running on my Mac (macOS Sierra,  10.12.5, R version 3.4).  On CRAN only source is available for El Capitan or higher.  There are several places that suggest SF can be compiled after doing the necessary installs using "brew"  but I found that given my version of OS,  one or more of the brew packages failed.  I believe I have all the packages needed installed using the stuff from Kyngchaos,  but my efforts to set the compile directories correctly have not worked.
> 
> Has anyone been able to build this,  or have any suggestions on how to build it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
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"The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA."
**********************
Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
***Note new street address***
110 McAllister Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)-420-3666
Fax: (831) 420-3980
e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.