[R-sig-Geo] no proj_defs.dat file in PROJ.4 files message when using rgdal

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Wall, Wade A ERDC-RDE-CERL-IL CIV wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using R on a high performance Linux cluster and had to build gdal, 
> proj4 (version 4.9.2), and rgdal from source. I had to install proj.4 in 
> a non-standard location (/p/bin/proj4) and this appears to be causing 
> some problems.
>
> I modified my $PATH variable to include /p/bin/proj4; 
> /p/bin/proj4/lib;/p/bin/proj4/share/proj

No, not $PATH for anything other than executables. You may need a 
different path for the shared objects. For the PROJ shared files, set 
PROJ_LIB, which should be respected.

Roger

>
> I installed rgdal using the following command
>
> Install.packages("rgdal",configure.args = 
> c("--with-project-include=/p/bin/proj4/include","--with-proj-lib=/p/bin/proj4/lib","--with-proj-share=/p/bin/proj4/share/proj"))
>
> When I load rgdal, the path to gdal is displayed, but the path to proj4 
> says "(autodetected)".
>
> However, I receive the message "rgdal::checkCRSArgs:: no proj_defs.dat 
> in PROJ.4 shared files" when I try to use the raster() function from the 
> raster package.
>
> I have verified that proj_def.dat is in /p/bin/proj4/share/proj. I have 
> also tried placing it in other locations.
>
> Any suggestions on how  I can get rgdal to find the proj_def.dat file(s)?
>
> Wade
>
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