[GRASS-stats] problem installing spgrass6 in R

[Tim Holland]

Hamish wrote:
> 
> 
>> you need to install 'make' which comes with gcc etc. from the
>> Xcode(?) installer.
> 
> 


Roger Bivand wrote:
> 
> 
> I think Tim needs to read the available FAQs on CRAN, and read:
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/tools/
> 
> giving the recipes for setting up an OSX system for building R packages. 
> It isn't hard, one just needs to folloow the instructions and *never* 
> assume anything unless one knows more about OSX variants than the 
> maintainer. I think that the underlying GRASS install is broken too 
> (probably PATH problems) wrt. GDAL.
> 
> 


Dear all, 

Thank you for the help, Hamish and Roger (on list and off).  I was missing
Xcode as you suggested Hamish, so now that is installed and I got marginally
further on the install: rgdal and spgrass6 still failed, but bitops, XML,
and sp worked.  

I am still not sure how to test if my gdal install is broken or not, but I
will follow Roger's advice and assume that is is, and reinstall everything
from the ground up.  I tried running gdal-config in GRASS, and got the
following output - so I think it is installed, put perhaps with PATH
problems.  

GRASS 6.4.0RC4 (mapset):~ > gdal-config
Usage: gdal-config [OPTIONS]
Options:
	[--prefix[=DIR]]
	[--libs]
	[--dep-libs]
	[--cflags]
	[--datadir]
	[--version]
	[--ogr-enabled]
	[--formats]

Thanks again for the help.  The error messages I'm getting now are below.  I
am mainly just writing here as an update for the info of the list (and
newbies such as myself getting stuck on this in future), so unless it seems
like a bad idea (in which case please correct me) I will just do the
strategy of reinstalling everything.   

Best, 
Tim



(part of) error transcript from R (having run install.packages("spgrass6",
type="source", dependencies=TRUE)): 

Error: gdal-config not found
The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
download the source from  http://www.gdal.org/
If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
 --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config' echo with
appropriate values for your installation.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
* Removing
‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/library/rgdal’
* Installing *source* package ‘spgrass6’ ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : package 'rgdal' required by 'spgrass6' could not be found
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘spgrass6’
* Removing
‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/library/spgrass6’

The downloaded packages are in

‘/private/var/folders/nX/nX5WzHJNHoC9btpEipD-dU+++TM/-Tmp-/RtmplsIEHV/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("spgrass6", type = "source", dependencies = TRUE) :
  installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("spgrass6", type = "source", dependencies = TRUE) :
  installation of package 'spgrass6' had non-zero exit status
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