R help - Oct 2010 - ncdf4 package installation in R

Hello all, 

I could use some help installing the ncdf4 package in R (under CentOS 5.4).
I've installed R-2.12.0, zlib-1.2.5, hdf5-1.8.4-patch1 and NetCDF4.1.1 from
source. Make check reports all tests have passed for all of these programs.

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 ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
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 ?/usr/local/lib64/R/library/ncdf4?

Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this error?

Thanks in advance
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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 ??/usr/local/lib64/R/library/ncdf4??
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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