Tim Keitt a écrit : > Try installing libgdal1-1.3.1-dev which contains the header files and > should have gdal-config. OK. Just dit it... Worked well and rgdal could then be installed from R. First trials within R and some rgdal examples came OK.
Anyway, I will look further about "prevu" and also a way to manage with up-dated version of gdal as Roger advised. Many thanks, Patrick > > You may run into problems with incompatible library versions. Ubuntu > updates every 6 months, but the R world seems never to stop rolling > along. > > I've found the Ubuntu "prevu" utility extremely helpful as it fully > automates backporting from the development branch. Take a look here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268687 > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268687> > > Once installed and configured, you can build an R 2.4 package for > Edgy by typing "prevu r-base-core". Similarly for gdal "prevu gdal". > The utility will put the new packages into a local repository and ask > if you want to add it to your sources list. If you do add the local > repository, the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" will install your > backported packages. I know it sounds a bit complicated, but it really > is fairly easy. > > I'm hoping CRAN in the future will try to stay compatible with the R > version found in the major binary distributions! > > Cheers, > THK > > On 12/16/06, * Patrick Giraudoux* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Deal all, > > I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu and hopefully work on the two > plateform and more an more on Linux (an old dream). Thus I am a > newby in > Linux. I have installed R 2.4 (note that the R-cran repository > must be > added manually to the synaptic package manager - if not one get R 2.3 > from universe). > > gdal 1.3.1 has been installed via the synaptic package manager (thus > most likely well). > > The trouble comes installing the package rgdal. I get this message: > > 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 '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal' > > typing gdal-confing at a shell prompt does not run indeed, but I don't > have the lesser idea of what the next line advised to be used means: > --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config' echo > > For instance, I have tried > locate gdal-config > to find were the directory or file mentioned may be found... useless. > > I have googled a bit through mailing lists where this question is > sometime raised, but did not find helpful answers. > > Any hint? > > Patrick > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch <mailto:R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > > -- > Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin > Contact info and schedule at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/ > Reprints at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/papers/ > ODF attachment? See http://www.openoffice.org/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo