Hi, The message "there is no package called 'rgdal'" means that you don't have rgdal installed.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html Also, you will get very good patial-centric help if you subscribed to r-sig-geo here https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo Cheers, Ben > On Sep 6, 2017, at 2:52 PM, john polo <jp...@mail.usf.edu> wrote: > > Dear useRs, > > I am trying to import a raster with the line: > > nlcd <- raster("/home/jpolo/NRI/nlcd_nri5000.tif") > > And I keep getting an error like this: > > "Warning message: > In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return > = TRUE, : > there is no package called 'rgdal' > Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, band = band, objecttype = "RasterLayer", : > Cannot create RasterLayer object from this file; perhaps you need to > install rgdal first > Calls: raster -> raster -> .local -> .rasterObjectFromFile > Execution halted" > > This is the session info: > > "R version 3.2.5 (2016-04-14) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: CentOS release 6.3 (Final) > > locale: > [1] C > > attached base packages: > [1] methods stats graphics grDevices utils datasets base > > other attached packages: > [1] raster_2.5-8 sp_1.2-4 rgeos_0.3-23 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] Rcpp_0.12.10 grid_3.2.5 lattice_0.20-35 " > > I know the R version is old, but this is a system that I can not update, I > have no control over it. Because the version of R is old, the admin told me > that they cannot install rgdal. I am not using library(rgdal) and none of the > other libraries that are loaded require rgdal. The package raster does > suggest it though. Is that causing the problem? Is there a way to avoid this? > Any help is welcome. > > best, > > John > > > -- > "Ask a man to be quiet, > and he'll be silent for a moment. > Feed a man to a red dragon > and he'll be silent for a lifetime." > -Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 East Boothbay, Maine 04544 http://www.bigelow.org Ecocast Reports: http://seascapemodeling.org/ecocast.html Tick Reports: https://report.bigelow.org/tick/ Jellyfish Reports: https://jellyfish.bigelow.org/jellyfish/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
