Dear Eric, Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I don't have NetBSD on the cluster and considering the size of my dataset, I can't utilise my local machine.
Does it make a difference that the R installed on the cluster is up-to-date if I do want to compile everything from tar.gz? Thanks again. Sincerely, Shouro On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Eric Brown <br...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Dear Shouro, > > I can confirm that I have installed GDAL (and RGDAL) on CentOS 6.4, 6.5, > and 6.6. > > But quite frankly, these systems have such old versions of software that > I spent a fair amount of time compiling everything up from tar.gz. > > This is exhausting, so I spent some time learning NetBSD's pkgsrc--and > now recommend this wonderful package manager to anyone caught in a > situation where they don't have root privileges, but need to bring an > old CentOS to have modern versions of software and all its dependencies. > > Best regards, > Eric > > Shouro Dasgupta <sho...@gmail.com> writes: > > Dear all, >> >> I have access to an IBM IDataplex Cluster with CentOS v.6.2. R 3.2.1 is >> currently installed. I was wondering if there was any way to install RGDAL >> on it? Thanks! >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Shouro >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > -- *Shouro Dasgupta* PhD Candidate Science and Management of Climate Change Department of Economics | Ca' Foscari University of Venice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Junior Researcher Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) | Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 8 30124 Venezia Phone: +39 041 2700 436 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.