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...and convince yourself that you have rgdal. You could even do library(rgdal) | 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...

...ou could even do > > library(rgdal) > > | 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 duck...

...me/rolf/Rlib") and get the error message: > ** testing if installed package can be loaded > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : > unable to load shared object '/home/rolf/Rlib/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so': > /home/rolf/Rlib/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so: undefined symbol: CPLQuietErrorHandler > Error: loading failed > Execution halted I have installed libgdal-dev and (later, prompted by an email from Prof. John Nash) libgdal1-dev. I also have installed libproj-dev, as instructed by one site that I found by googling around. No joy. I have also gone to the Ubuntu Launchpad si...

...ran-rgdal. Thanks. OK, I have now done sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgdal successfully. 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 Why do these things always happen to *me*? Said he, plaintively. cheers (not very cheerily), Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276