[R-sig-Geo] rgdal install problems in a module environment

[Anderson, Richard O - (ric)]

When various applications are split into modules (RHEL/CentOS environment-modules package), such that
  module load R proj gdal
is needed to make those applications and their pkg-config files available, the R
  install.packages(‘rgdal’)
fails because it assumes proj and gdal are in the same place, and omits the -L… link option for proj’s library path.

An easy workaround until this is fixed is
  export proj_lib_path=`pkg-config proj --libs | awk '{print $1}'`
before you start R, then “install.packages(‘rgdal’)” works as expected.

The author of the package is working on a real fix, so this workaround may not be needed for long.

Cheers,
Ric
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