how to install R packages “RNetCDF” and “ncdf” on Ubuntu?

Question

I would like to use the R packages RNetCDF and ncdf in Ubuntu.

When I try install.packages(\'RNetCDF\') or install.packages(\'ncdf\'), I ge

Answer 1

Just to clarify, since your initial issue is in R, and the fix is applied outside of R. I initially was trying to do

install.packages("libnetcdf-dev"), which didn't work.

instead, from outside of R: sudo apt-get install libnetcdf-dev

That fixed it for me.