I am trying to install the package boss but i am getting error below: Please advice
install.packages("boss") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- CRAN mirror 1: 0-Cloud 2: Argentina (La Plata) 3: Argentina (Mendoza) 4: Australia (Canberra) 5: Australia (Melbourne) 6: Austria 7: Belgium 8: Brazil (PR) 9: Brazil (RJ) 10: Brazil (SP 1) 11: Brazil (SP 2) 12: Canada (BC) 13: Canada (NS) 14: Canada (ON) 15: Canada (QC 1) 16: Canada (QC 2) 17: Chile 18: China (Beijing 1) 19: China (Beijing 2) 20: China (Guangzhou) 21: China (Hefei) 22: China (Xiamen) 23: Colombia (Bogota) 24: Colombia (Cali) 25: Denmark 26: Ecuador 27: France (Lyon 1) 28: France (Lyon 2) 29: France (Montpellier) 30: France (Paris 1) 31: France (Paris 2) 32: Germany (Berlin) 33: Germany (Bonn) 34: Germany (Falkenstein) 35: Germany (Goettingen) 36: Greece 37: Hungary 38: India 39: Indonesia 40: Iran 41: Ireland 42: Italy (Milano) 43: Italy (Padua) 44: Italy (Palermo) 45: Japan (Hyogo) 46: Japan (Tsukuba) 47: Japan (Tokyo) 48: Korea (Seoul 1) 49: Korea (Seoul 2) 50: Latvia 51: Mexico (Mexico City) 52: Mexico (Texcoco) 53: Netherlands (Amsterdam) 54: Netherlands (Utrecht) 55: New Zealand 56: Norway 57: Philippines 58: Poland 59: Portugal 60: Russia 61: Singapore 62: Slovakia 63: South Africa (Cape Town) 64: South Africa (Johannesburg) 65: Spain (Madrid) 66: Sweden 67: Switzerland 68: Taiwan (Taichung) 69: Taiwan (Taipei) 70: Thailand 71: Turkey 72: UK (Bristol) 73: UK (London) 74: UK (St Andrews) 75: USA (CA 1) 76: USA (CA 2) 77: USA (IA) 78: USA (IN) 79: USA (KS) 80: USA (MD) 81: USA (MI) 82: USA (MO) 83: USA (OH) 84: USA (OR) 85: USA (PA 1) 86: USA (PA 2) 87: USA (TN) 88: USA (TX 1) 89: USA (WA 1) 90: USA (WA 2) 91: Venezuela 92: Vietnam Selection: 86 also installing the dependency 'ncdf' trying URL 'http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/src/contrib/ncdf_1.6.6.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 79403 bytes (77 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 77 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/src/contrib/boss_1.2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 9702 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 9702 bytes * installing *source* package 'ncdf' ... ** package 'ncdf' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for nc-config... no checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking netcdf.h usability... no checking netcdf.h presence... no checking for netcdf.h... no configure: error: netcdf header netcdf.h not found ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ncdf' * removing '/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib64/R/library/ncdf' ERROR: dependency 'ncdf' is not available for package 'boss' * removing '/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib64/R/library/boss' The downloaded source packages are in '/tmp/RtmppOWF74/downloaded_packages' Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' Making packages.html ... done Warning messages: 1: In install.packages("boss") : installation of package 'ncdf' had non-zero exit status 2: In install.packages("boss") : installation of package 'boss' had non-zero exit status > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.