[R-sig-Geo] Fwd: GDAL Error 1: PROJ: proj_create_from_database: cannot build geodeticCRS 4326

[Edzer Pebesma]

I would say this indicates a broken installation of PROJ on your system, 
or you have more than one instance (and different versions) of PROJ 
installed.

On 10/09/2021 12:20, Anna Mujal Colilles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a new R user trying to transform lat-lon data to utm. I've been doing
> so in two different ways and both give me the same error. My machine is a
> Linux Ubuntu 18.04 system.
> 
> The first way I wanted to transform them was:
> sp <-
> SpatialPoints(df[,c("longitude","latitude")],proj4string=CRS("+init=epsg:4326
> +proj=longlat
> +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs +towgs84=0,0,0 "))
> sp2<-spTransform(sp, CRS("+proj=utm +zone=33 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
> +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"))
> 
> the second option was
> sf_sample <- sf::st_as_sf(coord_sample, coords = c("longitude",
> "latitude"), crs = 4326)
> 
> However, I keep having the same problem over and over again related to the
> crs init 4326
> 
> Warning message:
> In CPL_crs_from_input(x) :
>    GDAL Error 1: PROJ: proj_create_from_database: cannot build geodeticCRS
> 4326: SQLite error on SELECT name, ellipsoid_auth_name, ellipsoid_code,
> prime_meridian_auth_name, prime_meridian_code, area_of_use_auth_name,
> area_of_use_code, publication_date, deprecated FROM geodetic_datum WHERE
> auth_name = ? AND code = ?: no such column: publication_date
> 
> can anyone help me please?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Anna
> 
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