[R] Problem in installing ncdf package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.03.2010 07:06, BabyL BabyK wrote:
> Dear R communities
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> Could you please help me with the problem I encounter while trying to install the ncdf package?
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> download.packages("ncdf", "/home/user/soft/R/library/")
> cd /home/user/soft/R/library
> R CMD INSTALL ncdf_1.6.tar.gz # fail
> sudo R CMD INSTALL ncdf_1.6.tar.gz # fail
>
> cd /home/user/soft/
> # download http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/ftp/netcdf-4.0.1.tar.gz
> tar -xzvf netcdf-4.0.1.tar.gz
>
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="-with-netcdf_incdir=/home/user/soft/netcdf-4.0.1/libsrc -with-netcdf_libdir=/home/user/soft/netcdf-4.0.1/libsrc/" ncdf_1.6.tar.gz  # Error: user specified netCDF library directory does not have libnetcdf.a !


You need to install netcdf first, then specify the include and libdir 
(the later will contain the lib afterwards).

Uwe Ligges



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