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

[Edzer Pebesma]

Would you mind giving the ouptut of:

pkg-config proj --libs
pkg-config proj --cflags

and also try:

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

On 10/29/19 7:11 AM, Tomislav Hengl wrote:
> 
> 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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Edzer Pebesma
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