Dear list,

I am trying to install rgeos package in a Red-Hat Linux server, but I
receive the following error in the install report. I would appreciate any
insights on how to solve the problem:

Installing package(s) into
‘/home/fvb/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rgeos_0.2-19.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 221471 bytes (216 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 216 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ...
** package ‘rgeos’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgeos: 0.2-17
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
configure: svn revision: 394
checking geos-config usability...
./configure: line 1385: geos-config: command not found
no
configure: error: geos-config not usable
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’
* removing ‘/home/fvb/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.15/rgeos’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘rgeos’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpuKOdxi/downloaded_packages’

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