Yung-wei,
If you read through this, it is one of the more instructive error messages you are likely to receive, so I would suggest that you work through the steps it suggests.
My guess is that if you are on a shared machine, the gdal libraries are not installed, and you will have to speak to your administrators about installing them.
./configure: line 2013: gdal-config: command not found
Error: gdal-config not found
The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
You may need to get help from admins to do this on a shared machine.
If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
--configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config'
with appropriate values for your installation.
You will have to look at the help for install.packages for details on how to do this - watch out for the quoting.
cheers
Ben
On 06/09/2011, at 1:03 PM, ? ?? wrote:
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your remider and the following is the whole information I got:
Installing package(s) into ?/home/yungweichen/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/src/contrib/rgdal_0.7-1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1432509 bytes (1.4 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1.4 Mb
* installing *source* package ?rgdal? ...
gdal-config: gdal-config
./configure: line 2013: gdal-config: command not found
Error: gdal-config not found
The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
download the source from http://www.gdal.org/
If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
--configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config'
with appropriate values for your installation.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?rgdal?
* removing ?/home/yungweichen/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/rgdal?
The downloaded packages are in
?/tmp/RtmpjttzmJ/downloaded_packages?
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgdal") :
installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status
Yung-wei
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] problem for installing "rgdal" package in r
From: lists at remoteinformation.com.au
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:51:49 +0800
CC: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
To: robin50488 at hotmail.com
At a guess your error message was slightly longer than you have posted below - which only says that the install failed.
The more information you provide the better your chances of help...
cheers
Ben
On 06/09/2011, at 12:27 PM, ? ?? wrote:
Hi,
I am a begginner using R in Linux system and I am doing some spatial
research. Recently, I tried to install "rgdal" package in Linux system but
I got the error message "installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit
status".
It is impossible I can update the version of R because it is our
department system. Therefore, I wonder if there is any other ways to
install package.
Can you help me to deal with this problem? Thank you in advance.
Yung-wei Chen
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