[R-sig-Fedora] Error installing 'rgdal' on Centos 7

[Martyn Plummer]

[Snipping r-dig-geo as I do not have the right to post there]

The gdal-config script is provided by the gdal-devel RPM, so you need to
install that. I did suggest this in my previous email.

Martyn

On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 11:18 +0100, Manuel Pizarro Gavilán wrote:
> Good morning Martyn.
> 
> Thank you for your email.
> 
> Some details for the problem.
> 
> This is the message of the console in R:
> 
> 
> ------------------
> 
> > install.packages("rgdal")
> Installing package into  
> ‘/home/aliendist/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> probando la URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rgdal_0.9-1.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1624496 bytes (1.5 Mb)
> URL abierta
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1.5 Mb
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
> ** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> configure: CC: gcc -m64 -std=gnu99
> configure: CXX: g++ -m64
> configure: rgdal: 0.9-1
> checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
> configure: svn revision: 518
> configure: gdal-config: gdal-config
> checking gdal-config usability...
> ./configure: line 2119: gdal-config: command not found
> no
> Error: gdal-config not found
> The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
> If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
> download the source from  http://www.gdal.org/
> If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
> gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
> shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
>   --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config'
> with appropriate values for your installation.
> 
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
> * removing ‘/home/aliendist/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1/rgdal’
> Warning in install.packages :
>    installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/Rtmpeaf9P4/downloaded_packages’
> >
> 
> -------------------
> 
> I tried to install gdal -dev and gdal but it is impossible.
> 
> Regards,
> Manuel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Martyn Plummer <plummerm at iarc.fr> escribió:
> 
> > You don't say exactly what the problem is, but I can give you some
> > general advice.
> >
> > The first thing to check on any RPM-based system is that you have the
> > appropriate development package installed, in this case gdal-devel.
> >
> > I see that ELGIS does not support CentOS 7, so that might be your
> > problem. EPEL 7 does include gdal so you might rely on their package.
> >
> > If neither of these are helpful then you need to be more specific.
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> > On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 11:09 +0100, Manuel Pizarro Gavilán wrote:
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> I can't install the ' rgdal ' package in R and ' GDAL ' on CentOS 7
> >> (ELGIS repo added).
> >>
> >> Is there any solution?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >
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