Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> writes: > On 30/04/2014 13:56, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> If I remember correctly, the installation from source was quite easy: >> apart from the usual compilers, you need gdal installed, which installs >> easily via homebrew [1]. After this, installation of rgdal from source >> worked without any additional configurations? > > No, not really. > > 1) for a portable package you will need static GDAL. > > 2) GDAL can make use of a wide range of external software to read > raster files: without quite a lot of the optional ones it is not much > use for rgdal and other R packages. Simon needs to build that for > Mavericks, and statically too.
Sorry - I was talking of installing it in R via type="source" not on CRAN. For CRAN it is definitely a different issue. Rainer > > However, Fellows has ignored all the advice to use the Snow Leopard > package of R 3.1.0 if he wants rgdal. That is in the current manual > (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-OS-X) > and was posted to this list recently > (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-April/010835.html). > That is by far the easiest solution. > >> >> Rainer >> >> >> Ian Fellows <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Does anyone know if there are plans to have rgdal compile correctly on >>> the CRAN Mavericks machine? I’ve really been enjoying the binaries >>> that have been available as building from source is a non-trival >>> hassle. >>> >>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks/rgdal-00check.html >>> >>> Best, >>> Ian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> Footnotes: >> [1] http://brew.sh/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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