On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Tony Marlboro wrote: > Hello, > > I am using R on Mac OS X. I have tried to install the package > "netCDF", but have run into a problem. The install.packages command > fails during a call to the "configure" shell script in the package > build directory, because it cannot find the netCDF libraries on my > system. Those libraries are installed in /sw/lib, as they were > installed with fink, and this system puts everything in /sw. > > Either I need a way to give "configure" flags to > install.packages(), or this package is broken. Note that > /sw/lib/R/etc/Makeconf has all the right build flags. Is there a > mechanism for handling problems of this nature?
Yes, to use R CMD INSTALL directly: use R CMD INSTALL --help to find out how. You need to supply --with-netCDF=/sw, I believe (but then the headers may not be found). It should be simpler to fix your OS: if you put /sw/include in your INCLUDE path and /sw/lib in your LIBRARY path then configure in netCDF should work `out of the box'. I would consider this to be a problem with your setup, not with R nor netCDF: why should netCDF know anything about fink? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help