[gdal-dev] Re: rgdal source code

[Roger Bivand]

The root cause of the sourceforge issue is in a message posted 2010-03-25
from their admin:

"Update on the current CVS outage that is affecting projects whose UNIX
names start with the letters  a, e, h, i, m, o, r, s, w, z.

The work being done on this server may take up to two days to resolve. We’re
working to resolve this with alacrity and assure maximum stability and
performance."

So access should be back by the end of March.

Roger


Roger Bivand wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Ivan wrote:
> 
>> Roger,
>>
>> I in fact did my homework, but I've got a C.
>>
>> As you can see on my previous message I did find the RGDAL Source Forge
>> page 
>> where it shows the CVS instructions ===> [1] <===. That would give a B+
>> at 
>> least, no? If it worked.
>>
>> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rgdal login
>> Logging in to
>> :pserver:anonymous at rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/rgdal
>> CVS password:
>> cvs [login aborted]: connect to 
>> rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net(216.34.181.108):2401 failed: Connection refused
>>
>> That was a dead end.
> 
> Correct. When I tried, anonymous checkout from sourceforge was also 
> blocked - nothing we've done, maybe something sourceforge has done. I have 
> changed the main description to:
> 
> "WARNING: rgdal is only available for download from CRAN - this repository 
> is only used for development and browsing of source code. NEVER use the 
> very out of date file bundles for download from this site!!! See 
> http://rgdal.sourceforge.net for link."
> 
> Short of migrating to R-forge (which I have done for another R package, 
> spdep), there isn't much that can be done with sourceforge, I'm afraid 
> (sourceforge isn't my favorite place to be).
> 
> cc: Tim: Any idea why the anonymous checkout fails? Longer term - is 
> migration to SVN on R-Forge worth considering?
> 
> Roger
> 
>>
>> I download some of those zip packages from rgdal.sourceforge.net but they 
>> only have binary that requires FWTools installation.
>>
>> Another dead end.
>>
>> But you are right I should have search a little more to find the CRAN
>> page. 
>> So I am downloading rgdal_0.6-2.5.zip now. Let's see how it goes.
>>
> 
> That is the current Windows CRAN binary, get rgdal_0.6-25.tar.gz for the 
> source. Install the Windows binary within R - do *not* treat the zip 
> archive as an archive - it is just a frozen binary version of the source 
> for Windows.
> 
> Roger
> 
>> Thanks you so very much Roger. Have a nice day.
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> Roger Bivand wrote:
>>> Please, do your homework!
>>> 
>>> Google on "R rgdal" gives:
>>> 
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html
>>> 
>>> http://rgdal.sourceforge.net/
>>> 
>>> where the latter says: "The R contributed package rgdal is available
>>> from
>>> CRAN", that is the first link. On CRAN you will find both the source 
>>> tarball
>>> and a Windows 32-bit binary including 1.7.1 with standard drivers and
>>> expat
>>> for reading KML etc. 
>>> The sourceforge site is used exclusively as a CVS repository for
>>> developers
>>> - it hasn't been used for software distribution since about 2004; the
>>> CRAN
>>> distribution mechanism is far more robust and "just works".
>>> 
>>> Refer to show.file(system.file("README.windows", package="rgdal")) if
>>> you
>>> need to build from source for more exotic drivers.
>>> 
>>> The relevant mailing list is R-sig-geo,
>>> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/R-SIG-Geo/, and the best
>>> point of entrance, the R Spatial task view:
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> 
>>> Roger
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ivan-5 wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to get RGDAL to work with GDAL 1.7.1 but I cannot access
>>>> the
>>>> source code [1] and the binaries for Windows depend on some old version
>>>> of
>>>> gdal_fw.dll. Does anybody have any clue?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Ivan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [1] - http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=84716
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>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Roger Bivand
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>>> Department of Economics
>>> Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
>>> Helleveien 30
>>> N-5045 Bergen, Norway
>>> 
>>
>>
> 
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Roger Bivand
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Department of Economics
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Helleveien 30
N-5045 Bergen, Norway

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