On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Roger Bivand wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
Dear list members.
I have just updated to R 2.12.0, and see that the ‘rgdal’ package isn’t
available for installing from CRAN. Is it just a matter of time before it’s
available, or are there some technical problems?
No, the migration of binaries for Windows for both 32 and 64 bit has led to
rgdal being provided from the CRAN extras repository rather than on CRAN
mirrors, because of the extensive external dependencies, see:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe
On OSX one says:
setRepositories(ind=1:2)
install.packages("rgdal")
but I don't have access now to a Windows installation, so cannot check the
incantation. If those interested could check, I'll summarise to the list.
Two users have confirmed that the same incantation works. On my fresh
32-bit Windows R binary, my Packages -> Select repositories ... menu
chooses both CRAN and CRAN (extras) by default, and when used the first
time will replace CRAN by the mirror selected from a further menu. I'm
running plain:
update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
on a local library defined in the R_LIBS environment variable, and this
(as well as being the advised way of managing packages) picks up CRAN
extras automatically for other packages too, because it is pre-chosen. So
two conclusions so far:
1)
setRepositories(ind=1:2)
install.packages("rgdal")
works;
2)
update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
works without setting the repository if you have a local library as
described in the Windows FAQ, point 4.2. The CRAN extras rgdal includes a
copy of GDAL 1.7.1, we'll try to move to 1.7.2 when the road bump of
making R windows binaries multi-architectures passes.
Experiences of those running the 64-bit Windows implementation are
invited!
Roger
Roger
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