site refers to system-wide in R Documentation.Once in your R session, the prompt will change to > Note that some shells use the lowercase r command to repeat the last entered command. Make sure to use a capital 'R' for the command.Installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status Installation of package ‘sp’ had non-zero exit statusĮRROR: dependency ‘sp’ is not available for package ‘rgdal’ Installing package into ‘/home/laner/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1’Īlso installing the dependency ‘sp’ trying URL ''Ĭontent type 'application/x-gzip' length 1031688 bytes (1007 KB)Ĭontent type 'application/x-gzip' length 4465310 bytes (4.3 MB)ĮRROR: failed to lock directory ‘/home/laner/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1’ for modifying I got a different message before I uninstalled 'sf', but this is the message I get now: > install.packages('rgdal')

Once in, I write 'install.packages('rgdal')'.

I should add I use a Mac, so I'm probably running R on a MacOS system.

Most recently, IT suggested I uninstall 'sf', install 'rgdal,' and then install 'sf' again, but I still haven't been able to install 'rgdal.' I've talked with IT at my university for help. I have had issues trying to install the package 'rgdal' over the past three weeks.

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