[R-sig-Geo] Problems to install the raster package

[Pierre Roudier]

Just to add a detail: the installation of the sp package, with a
similar synthax, is working.

2011/10/26 Pierre Roudier <pierre.roudier at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I got a problem when trying to install the raster package on our cluster.
>
> I'm using the following synthax (I also unsuccessfully tried with a
> local tar.gz archive):
>
> install.package('raster', repos = "http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz",
> lib = Sys.getenv("TMP"))
>
> But I'm getting the following error:
>
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'raster', details:
>  call: gzfile(file, "r")
>  error: cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In gzfile(file, "r") :
>  cannot open compressed file '', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'raster'
> Execution halted
>
> Here's the sessionInfo():
>
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.iso885915        LC_COLLATE=en_US.iso885915
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C                  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.iso885915       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C                   LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.iso885915 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Any help would be most appreciated,
>
> Pierre
>
> --
> Scientist
> Landcare Research, New Zealand
>



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Scientist
Landcare Research, New Zealand