Rgdal Package Installation

rgdal package installation

I f you look at the package page on CRAN, you will see the following :

SystemRequirements: for building from source: GDAL >= 1.7.1 library
from http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource and PROJ.4 (proj >= 4.4.9) from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/; GDAL OSX frameworks built by William Kyngesburye at http://www.kyngchaos.com/ may be used for
source installs on OSX.

As you seem to be under Linux, you always build package from source, so you will have to install the corresponding libraries on your system. If you are under Mint, Ubuntu or another Debian derivative, you can do :

$ sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev libproj-dev

One tip that can be useful, still under a Debian based system, is to install the apt-file package and run :

$ sudo apt-file update

Then, when you get an error such as :

configure: error: proj_api.h not found in standard or given locations.

You can use the following command to find which package you must install to get the missing file :

$ apt-file search proj_api.h
libproj-dev: /usr/include/proj_api.h

how to install rgdal package

It should be sufficient to run install.packages('rgdal'). R will ask you to select a mirror where the "0-Cloud [https]" mirror should work. The package rgdal is available there. The mentioned repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin does not provide the R package.

Prompt user prior to installing R package

You can use function menu() inside an if statement to make a simple confirmation mechanism. This will work:

package <- "foo"

if (menu(c("Yes", "No"),
title= paste("Are you sure you want to install package", package)) == "1") {
install.packages(package)
} else { print("Cancelling installation")}


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