Help: how to install "rgdal package" on Ubuntu desktop?

| On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Lee Hachadoorian <

|

| > > Dear groups:
| > > I have tried to install rgdal in my Ubuntu, but it is not as straight
| > > as installing "sp". It demand the pre-installed GDAL and proj.4.
| > > I searched the source code in http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ and
| > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource. but don't know how to
| > > compile them.
| >
| > Ethan,
| >
| > You need the development packages of GDAL and proj4. Probably easier to
| > install from repository than from source. Try:
| >
| > $ sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev libproj-dev
| >
| 
| I would actually *not recommend* to use sudo to run R - unless you need a
| systemwide installation. I usually use R without sudo, and the packages are
| installed in my home directory, which I prefer

I tend to recommend against that for the standard use case (ie apart from,
say, development packages), and have instrumented the R packages for Debian /
Ubuntu to use /usr/local/lib/R/site-library --- which is set set to be group
'staff' with group-write permissions.  If you add yourself to 'staff' (or
switch the directory to another group you like) you can write there.

Unix is after all meant to be multi-user.

Dirk
 
| Cheers,
| 
| Rainer
| 
| 
| > $ sudo R
| > > install.packages("rgdal")
| >
| > Best,
| > --Lee
| >
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| > Lee Hachadoorian
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| > Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences
| > CUNY Graduate Center
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