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...l) | But sad to say, it didn't help a bit. When I try | | install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") | | I get exactly the same error as before. I.e. | | > undefined symbol: CPLQuietErrorHandler Computers have that silly habit of being deterministic. _Installing from source another time_ does not change the fact that you did not have your ducks in a row in the first place. We did not change that; Michael merely pointed you to a different pond with different ducks, ready to roast. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

...help a bit. When I try > | > | install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") > | > | I get exactly the same error as before. I.e. > | > | > undefined symbol: CPLQuietErrorHandler > > Computers have that silly habit of being deterministic. _Installing from > source another time_ does not change the fact that you did not have your > ducks in a row in the first place. We did not change that; Michael merely > pointed you to a different pond with different ducks, ready to roast. Dirk, this is not helpful. How the <expletive deleted&gt...

I previously sent a cri de coeur about this problem to the r-help list but so far have not managed to extract a solution. So I am trying here. (Uh, Ubuntu *is* a "special instance" of Debian, isn't it?) The problem is that I cannot install rgdal, and I need it. Rather desperately. I do: install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") and get the error