problems installing rgdal on mac osx 10.5.6
I think you should ask on the R-sig-Geo list: its arhives contain recent entries about building rgdal on Mac OS X. one of which I have used to give you a hint inline below.
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Viscarra Rossel, Raphael (CLW, Black Mountain) wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install rgdal on my mac but I am having problems. I downloaded the gdal, proj, geos... from http://www.kyngchaos.com/doku.php?id=software:frameworks and installed them by double clicking the mpkg in the dmg folders Then, I also downloaded the rgdal package (rgdal 0.6.8-2 - R 2.9 package) from this site and now I am trying to install it in R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17). I tried to install from terminal with: R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="/Users/..mypath.../rgdal/" rgdal_0.6-8.tar.gz" but not much happens....the prompt just sits at ' > '
That really doesn't help us: we need an exact record of what you did. But I don't see that --configure-args can be right, as you did not give a configure argument, which are like "--foo=bar". For a real example see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2009-April/005544.html which indicates how to specify paths for a framework.
I also tried through R with install.packages using:
install.packages("rgdal_0.6-8.tar.gz", "/Users/..mypath.../rgdal/")
You need 'type="source"' if you intend to build from the sources on a CRAN binary build of R: you really ought to have repos=NULL too. Please do read the help page (we asked you to do so before posting in the posting guide).
and I get the following warning message: Warning message: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : package ?rgdal_0.6-8.tar.gz? is not available Can anyone please help? Cheers R. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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