Hi, You could try installing the ncdf package. This installed for my without any problems when RNetCDF failed. I suspect ncdf has very similar functionality, but i've only worked with ncdf.
install.packages("ncdf") should do the trick... cheers, Paul On 09/05/2011 08:56 PM, David Brown wrote: > On a Red Hat Linux cluster I am seeing the following after multiple > other packages were successfully installed. The error seems to suggest > that RNetCDF.o was not copied to the appropriate lib folder. The admin > user performing the install has the required privileges to perform the > install. Words of wisdom are greatly appreciated: > > R CMD INSTALL > --configure-args="--with-netcdf-include='/soft/local/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2/include/' > --with-netcdf-lib='/soft/local/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2/libso' > --with-udunits-include='/soft/local/udunits-2.1.23/include' > --with-udunits-lib='/soft/local/udunits-2.1.23/lib'" > RNetCDF_1.5.2-2.tar.gz > > * installing to library ‘/soft/local/r/R-2.13.1/lib64/R/library’ > * installing *source* package ‘RNetCDF’ ... > checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking for nc_open in -lnetcdf... yes > checking for utInit in -ludunits2... no > checking for utScan in -ludunits2... yes > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking for ANSI C header files... no > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking netcdf.h usability... yes > checking netcdf.h presence... yes > checking for netcdf.h... yes > checking udunits.h usability... yes > checking udunits.h presence... yes > checking for udunits.h... yes > configure: creating ./config.status > config.status: creating R/load.R > config.status: creating src/Makevars > ** libs > gcc -std=gnu99 -I/soft/local/r/R-2.13.1/lib64/R/include > -I/soft/local/udunits-2.1.23/include > -I/soft/local/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2/include/ -I/usr/local/include > -fpic -g -O2 -c RNetCDF.c -o RNetCDF.o > gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o RNetCDF.so RNetCDF.o > -ludunits2 -lnetcdf -L/soft/local/udunits-2.1.23/lib > -L/soft/local/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2/libso -lexpat > installing to /soft/local/r/R-2.13.1/lib64/R/library/RNetCDF/libs > ** R > ** preparing package for lazy loading > ** help > *** installing help indices > ** building package indices ... > ** testing if installed package can be loaded > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : > unable to load shared object > '/soft/local/r/R-2.13.1/lib64/R/library/RNetCDF/libs/RNetCDF.so': > libudunits2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Error: loading failed > Execution halted > ERROR: loading failed > * removing ‘/soft/local/r/R-2.13.1/lib64/R/library/RNetCDF’ > [swadm@boar01]/soft/local/temp% > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 ______________________________________________ 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.