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

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Anderson, Richard O - (ric) wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the report, the fixed configure file is now on R-Forge and the 
package (version > 1.4-6 on CRAN) should be installable using

install.packages("rgdal", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

(only affects source installs)

Roger

>
> Cheers,
> Ric
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