[R-sig-Geo] Installation of proj4 v6 on Ubuntu 18.04 Error: proj/epsg not found

[Tomislav Hengl]

Thanks Edzer,

I removed my gdal (which removes also all QGIS and everything connect 
unfortunately) then I followed your steps and I get (somehow the proj 
version is still 5 and not 6):

 > install.packages("rgdal")
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* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 1.3-3
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
configure: svn revision: 759
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... yes
configure: C++11 support available
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 2.4.2
checking C++11 support for GDAL >= 2.3.0... yes
checking GDAL version >= 1.11.4... yes
checking gdal: linking with --libs only... yes
checking GDAL: /usr/share/gdal/pcs.csv readable... yes
configure: pkg-config proj exists, will use it
configure: PROJ version: 5.2.0
checking proj_api.h presence and usability... no
configure: error: proj_api.h not found in standard or given locations.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
* removing ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.5.1/lib64/R/library/rgdal’
* restoring previous ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.5.1/lib64/R/library/rgdal’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/data/RTMP/Rtmpl5wj21/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgdal") :
   installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status

what am I doing wrong?


On 10/28/19 10:36 PM, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> formerly PROJ.4 is now called PROJ.
> 
> Have you also tried the usual ubuntu install suggestions we give to
> R/ubuntu users, e.g. on https://github.com/r-spatial/sf ?
> 
> They are:
> 
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
> 
> On 10/28/19 4:34 PM, Tomislav Hengl wrote:
>>
>> Dear R-sig-geo,
>>
>> I am trying to install proj4 v6 on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic. I though I can
>> install it simply by following the ubuntugis steps
>> (https://mothergeo-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/how-to/gdal-ubuntu-pkg.html)
>> but this does not lead to newest version of proj4 v6.
>>
>> Then I have tried to follow the proj6 steps
>> (https://proj.org/install.html#install) which indicate that I should do
>> it via the Anaconda installer. After I installed proj4 v6 from conda I get:
>>
>> $ which proj
>> /home/tomislav/anaconda2/bin/proj
>>
>> $  proj -V
>> Rel. 6.2.0, September 1st, 2019
>> <proj>:
>> projection initialization failure
>> cause: no arguments in initialization list
>> program abnormally terminated
>>
>> After that I've added the 'PROJ_LIB = /home/tomislav/anaconda2/bin/proj
>> ' to my .Renviron file and then I get:
>>
>> install.packages("rgdal")
>> Installing package into ‘/home/tomislav/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> ...
>> checking PROJ.4: epsg found and readable... no
>> 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, and if need be use the --with-proj-share=
>> configure argument.
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
>> * removing ‘/home/tomislav/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/rgdal’
>> Warning in install.packages :
>>    installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status
>>
>> $gdalinfo --version
>> GDAL 2.4.0, released 2018/12/14
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Which tutorial / documentation do you advise to
>> install proj4 v6 and rgdal package on Ubuntu?
>>
>> thank you (especially you Roger!),
>>
>> T. Hengl
>>
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