For those of you having same problems : just like i solved it : downloaded it from US Mirror : http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rgdal/ then installed it manually on console with
R CMD INSTALL /home/hacke/temp/rgdal_0.6-24.tar.gz hope this works 4 you :) Thanks for the help with us mirror and so on. 2010/4/26 Jan Hackenberg <[email protected]> > Hi > i am seriously having problems with installing this package on my Linux- > Ubuntu machine. I think that i have installed the external gdal packages > correctly. > > The error message is in German : > > > install.packages('rgdal',dep = TRUE , lib = '~/lib/R') > --- Bitte einen CRAN Spiegel für diese Sitzung auswählen --- > Lade Tcl/Tk Interface ... fertig > Warnmeldungen: > 1: In open.connection(con, "r") : > kann nicht mit 'cran.r-project.org' auf Port 80 verbinden > 2: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : > package rgdal is not available > > this means : > 1) cant connect to cran.r-project.org on port 80 > > And it takes about 5 Minutes to get the choose mirror window being opened. > I also recognized that pages like *cran*.*r*-project.org seem to be > offline too. > So my quesion is, are there some server problems right now, and that is the > reason for not being able to install this package? > I need it to transform some Gauss krueger coordinates into latlong and this > sptransform method from the package is the one i want to use. > > Best regards > Jan Hackenberg > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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