On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Steve Friedman <friedman.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to install the "ncdf" package on a Ubuntu 10.04 laptop. > > Can you offer suggestions to install this package?
<snip> > checking for netcdf.h... no > configure: error: netcdf header netcdf.h not found > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘ncdf’ > * removing ‘/home/steve/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/ncdf’ Looks like you need the netCDF libraries. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcdf suggests that you need both the binary and a -dev package with headers. The ncdf binaries on Windows and Mac have been specially built to include the netCDF libraries, but the source package doesn't include them. -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.