[STATSGRASS] problem with installing rgdal (to Roger, I thing)

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, [ISO-8859-2] Jaros³aw Jasiewicz wrote:

> 
> I try to install rgdal 0.4-10 on another computer (ubuntu 6.06, R 2.3.1 
> from sources)
> 
> and I recive massage:
> 
> > checking proj_api.h presence... yes
> > checking for proj_api.h... yes
> > checking for pj_init_plus in -lproj... no
> > libproj.a and/or proj_api.h not found.
> > If the PROJ.4 library is installed in a non-standard location,
> > use --configure-args='--with-proj-include=/opt/local/include
> > --with-proj-lib=/opt/local/lib' for example, replacing /opt/local/*
> > with appropriate values for your installation.
> > If PROJ.4 is not installed, install it.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
> > ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/rgdal'
> Of course, I cannot add, I have proj4 installed porertly in: 
> usr/local/share/proj4, usr/local/lib and usr/local/include
> 
> (to avoid questions - beleve me, I know how proj4 shall be installed 
> propertly)
> 
> the proj_api.h is in usr/local/include and libproj.a is in usr/local lib
> 
> next according message I try
> install.packages("rgdal", repos="http://...", 
> configure.args=c('--with-proj-lib=/usr/local/lib', 
> '--with-proj-include=/usr/local/include'))
> 
> I recived the same message
> 
> Because /usr/local/... for some programs are not standard instalation 
> path (in spite of it it is on PATH) i have installed proj4 from ubuntu 
> repository to /usr/lib, usr/share/proj4 and /usr/include
> 
> and I recived the same message
> 
> In my home compurer, where I had installed rgdal 0.4-8 before  
> installation was without problems (problems are with sperfish60 and 
> other unprojected locations but it isn't a theme of that post)
> 
> 
> I know that configure.args is not proper. It shall be with variables but 
> I don't know which (LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_INCLUDE_PATH taht not work??)

Please do things step by step, it will be easier to help.

Please download the rgdal_0.4-10.tar.gz file to a suitable temporary
directory. Change to that directory and run 

R CMD INSTALL -l <your R_LIBS> rgdal_0.4-10.tar.gz

from the shell prompt by hand. If the same error occurs, follow:

http://www.sal.uiuc.edu/tools/tools-sum/rgeo/rgeo-detail/map-packages-on-cran

and 

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Configure-example

carefully in building up the --configure-args='' to suit your 
installation, probably:

--configure-args='--with-proj-lib=/usr/local/lib'

I do not know how Ubuntu sets up the environment for ./configure, in your 
case the headers are being found but not the lib*.a file, which is 
puzzling, because /usr/local is a usual place to look by default. Does 
GDAL find the PROJ.4 headers and libraries without help?

Hope this helps.

Roger


> 
> And in addition. I don't know it is connected - but few second after 
> mentioned error computers resources going to 0 (I cannot try which 
> application) and R stops with message: cannot allocate 27 bytes... 
> others libraries (include PgSQL was instaslled without problems)

Problems are known to occur when the archive address is wrong, etc. 

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Roger Bivand
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