Thanks David!
After setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable(to /usr/local/lib) R was able to
successfully install the ncdf4 package.


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Pierce [via R] <
ml-node+3014258-455613790-200...@n4.nabble.com<ml-node%2b3014258-455613790-200...@n4.nabble.com>
> wrote:

> shaticus wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I could use some help installing the ncdf4 package in R (under CentOS
> > 5.4).
> >...
> > When I issue an 'install.packages(c('ncdf4')) in R, compilation succeeds
> > but
> > I receive the following error during the loading phase of installation:
> >
> > ** building package indices ...
> > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
> >   unable to load shared object
> > '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/ncdf4/libs/ncdf4.so':
> >   libnetcdf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
> > ERROR: loading failed
> > * removing â/usr/local/lib64/R/library/ncdf4â
>
> Hello,
>
> R is not finding the netcdf library that you compiled and, presumably,
> installed.  If you installed the netcdf library in a standard place, such
> as /usr/local/lib, it would probably be found by default.  If you don't
> want to (or can't) install in a standard location, the easiest fix is to
> add the location where you installed the netcdf library to your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable.  For example, if the netcdf libary
> is in /opt/sw/netcdf/lib, then you'd add that directory to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --Dave
>
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