[R-sig-Geo] Problem installing rgdal on 64 bit fedora

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Laura Poggio wrote:

> If you use:
> # yum search proj
> You should find proj, proj-devel, proj-epsg and proj-nad.
> At least it is what yum just found from my computer now.
> I had some problems earlier today to access fedora repository. What if you
> change repository?

Yes, there may be transient problems. From my RHEL box I don't see it now 
with yum search, but from F11, I do, but only for i586 (which is right for 
the machine).

For some murky reason, the packagers left the shared metadata out of 
regular proj, and have it in proj-nad and proj-epsg. I got round this 
earlier by shipping rgdal with the shared metadata files, but they could 
be staler than those otherwise on the user's platform, so at user request 
(for OSX among others), dropped the bundled files. I can see:

http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/11/x86_64/proj-epsg-4.6.1-2.fc11.x86_64.html

but since I build from source, can't vouch for it.

Roger

>
> Laura
>
> 2009/9/23 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>
>> I am getting this message when I try to install rgdal in R:
>>
>> Error: proj/epsg not found
>> Either install missing proj support files, for example
>> the proj-nad and proj-epsg RPMs on systems using RPMs,
>> or if installed but not autodetected, set PROJ_LIB to the
>> correct path.
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
>>
>>
>> I had previously installed gdal and proj.4 and proj-had using yum
>> (and I also tried from source).  From the shell these all seem to
>> work in that they return something rather than a message that
>> they are missing:
>>
>> proj
>> man proj
>> gdal-config
>>
>> However, when I issue the R command
>>
>>   install.packages("rgdal", dep = TRUE)
>>
>> I get a message back (below) that refers to proj-epsg as missing but
>> I see no such distribution:
>>
>> $ yum search proj-epsg
>> No Matches found
>>
>> What is proj-epsg, where is it and how do I get around this?
>>
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