[R] Help reinstalling rgdal (Ubuntu 16.04)

[Jeff Newmiller]

Or ask on R-sig-debian...

On August 9, 2018 3:13:38 PM PDT, "MacQueen, Don via R-help" <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>There are quite a few messages on R-sig-geo about installing rgdal on
>Ubuntu. Maybe one of them contains your solution?
>(I use Mac, so can't help directly)
>
>-Don
>
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>On 8/9/18, 8:36 AM, "R-help on behalf of Alexandra Thorn"
><r-help-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of mail using alexandrathorn.com>
>wrote:
>
>    Hi all,
>    
>    Following some updates to R that I received via Synaptic Package
>    Manager on Ubuntu 16.04 (looks like I now have R 3.4.4-1xenial0), I
>    have been unable to reinstall rgdal, and I need help.
>    
>    Initially I was getting error messages about dependencies on GDAL
>   1.11.4, but after following instructions to install GDAL from source
>(into my /usr/local directory) I'm now getting a different set of error
>  messages (see the output error messages posted below my signature).  
>    
> I can't tell if this means that I've made a mistake installing GDAL or
>   if there's some other problem with my setup/configuration.  I really
> need rgdal for the analyses I do in R and could use some help figuring
>    this out.
>    
>    Thanks,
>    Alex
>    
>    > install.packages("rgdal")
>Installing package into
>‘/home/athorn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
>    (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgdal_1.3-4.tar.gz'
>    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1664774 bytes (1.6 MB)
>    ==================================================
>    downloaded 1.6 MB
>    
>    * installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
>    ** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>    configure: R_HOME: /usr/lib/R
>    configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
>    configure: CXX: g++
>    configure: C++11 support available
>    configure: rgdal: 1.3-4
>    checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
>    configure: svn revision: 766
>    checking for gdal-config... /usr/local/bin/gdal-config
>    checking gdal-config usability... yes
>    configure: GDAL: 2.3.1
>    checking C++11 support for GDAL >= 2.3.0... yes
>    checking GDAL version >= 1.11.4... yes
>    checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no
>    checking gdal: linking with --libs and --dep-libs... no
>    In file included from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:45:0,
>                     from gdal_test.cc:1:
>  /usr/local/include/cpl_port.h:187:6: error: #error Must have C++11 or
>      newer. #    error Must have C++11 or newer.
>          ^
>    In file included from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:49:0,
>                     from gdal_test.cc:1:
> /usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected template-name
>      before '<' token class CPLXMLTreeCloser: public
>      std::unique_ptr<CPLXMLNode, CPLXMLTreeCloserDeleter> ^
>/usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected '{' before '<'
>      token /usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected
>      unqualified-id before '<' token In file included
>      from /usr/local/include/ogr_api.h:45:0,
>      from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:50, from gdal_test.cc:1:
> /usr/local/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected '}' before end of
>  line /usr/local/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected declaration
>      before end of line In file included
>      from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:45:0, from gdal_test.cc:1:
>  /usr/local/include/cpl_port.h:187:6: error: #error Must have C++11 or
>      newer. #    error Must have C++11 or newer.
>          ^
>    In file included from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:49:0,
>                     from gdal_test.cc:1:
> /usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected template-name
>      before '<' token class CPLXMLTreeCloser: public
>      std::unique_ptr<CPLXMLNode, CPLXMLTreeCloserDeleter> ^
>/usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected '{' before '<'
>      token /usr/local/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected
>      unqualified-id before '<' token In file included
>      from /usr/local/include/ogr_api.h:45:0,
>      from /usr/local/include/gdal.h:50, from gdal_test.cc:1:
> /usr/local/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected '}' before end of
>  line /usr/local/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected declaration
>      before end of line configure: Install failure: compilation and/or
>      linkage problems. configure: error: GDALAllRegister not found in
>      libgdal. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
>    * removing ‘/home/athorn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal’
>    
>    The downloaded source packages are in
>    	‘/tmp/RtmpeuSDnj/downloaded_packages’
>    Warning message:
>    In install.packages("rgdal") :
>      installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status
>    > 
>    
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