Re: [R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, I was talking about debian testing. It is the most updated distribution for GIS. I do not know much about the far past, but all current packages are in *very* good shape, up to date, and have been this way in the last couple of years (thanks to the

Re: [R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Tim Keitt
You mean Ubuntu lags behind Debian unstable. Debian unstable is constantly being updated. This is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective. I ran Debian unstable for several years and believe me the quality of Debian packaging varies a lot. Most Debian devs are quite good, b

[R-sig-Geo] rank abundance with VEGAN

2006-12-16 Thread Narendran Kodandapani
Hello, I am preparing a rank-abundance plot in R. I would like to have the four letter species code appear on the plot. Can someone tell me how to do that. Thanks, Narendran Michigan State University. ___ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.e

Re: [R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Patrick Giraudoux 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

Re: [R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You'll get much more trouble using GIS when on ubuntu compared to debian. It is basically the same thing, but packaged in ubuntu are oudated. pc Patrick Giraudoux ha scritto: > Deal all, > > I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu and hopefully work on

Re: [R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Tim Keitt
Try installing libgdal1-1.3.1-dev which contains the header files and should have gdal-config. 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

[R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-16 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
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 fr