[Liblas-devel] installing liblas on mac osx 10.6.5 - warning/error message when running "make"

[Howard Butler]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Verbesselt, Jan wrote:

> Hi Howard,
> 
> I have to mention that I received a lot of help from William Kyngesburye while compiling 'boost' and with the cmake -D etc. code for GRASS on Mac. I am happy to contribute to the help on how to install boost/libLas on MacOsX.

Yep.  William's fantastic, and his contributions on the OS X side have made it an excellent platform for many looking to do open source GIS on a mac.

> 
> Reading/Writing LAS files directly with libLAS in GRASS would be nice. I happy to try and have a look at implementing it within GRASS but I am just a GRASS beginner and not a programmer. I have been using R statistics all the time.
> I would be great to make liblas work for R also!
> There is a package within R that integrates R and C++ ->http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html and  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html  (if somebody could support me in making it run I am happy to volunteer here)

I think this is your StackOverflow post <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4269542/activate-run-the-liblas-c-library-within-r>.  I hope you are closer to your goal than you were when you asked this about on SO.

Howard