Using rgdal_0.8-14  and raster_2.1-71 it doesn't work for me.
Try to update your packages and try again.

sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 Patched (2013-12-05 r64394)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[7] base

other attached packages:
[1] rgdal_0.8-14  raster_2.1-71 sp_1.0-14

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.0.2      lattice_0.20-24





On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have no problem on linux with QGIS 2.01, RStudio Version 0.98.484
> and
> rgdal: version: 0.8-11, (SVN revision 479M)
> Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
> Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.10.0, released 2013/04/24
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=es_ES.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=es_ES.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] raster_2.1-49 rgdal_0.8-11  sp_1.0-13     lmodel2_1.7-1
> xtable_1.7-1  knitr_1.5
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] codetools_0.2-8 digest_0.6.3    evaluate_0.5.1  formatR_0.9
> grid_3.0.2      lattice_0.20-24 markdown_0.6.3
> [8] stringr_0.6.2   tools_3.0.2
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Guillaume Drolet
> <droletguillaume@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This morning I updated RStudio to version 0.98.484, and Quantum GIS to
> > version 2.0.1 (Dufour) using the standalone installer.
> >
> > After that, I tried to run some code in RStudio and I got the error
> message
> > below when running the following command:
> >
> >> filename <- "test.tif"
> >> try(writeRaster(raster(matrix(1, 1, 1)), filename = filename, overwrite
> =
> >> overwrite))
> >
> > Error in .gd_SetProject(transient, crs(r)) :
> >   STRING_ELT() can only be applied to a 'character vector', not a
> 'logical'
> >
> > Then, I updated rgdal to version 0.8-14 and now I get this error when
> > running the same code:
> >
> > Error in .gd_SetProject(object, ...) :
> >   STRING_ELT() can only be applied to a 'character vector', not a
> 'logical'
> >
> > Until this morning, I never had any problem with that line of code
> above. I
> > suspect this could be due to the QGIS installation that could have messed
> > with my GDAL installation: is that possible (is GDAL used by rgdal at
> all)?
> > I tried uninstalling QGIS but I still get the same error message.
> >
> > My session info:
> >
> > R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=French_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_Canada.1252
> > LC_MONETARY=French_Canada.1252
> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=French_Canada.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> >  [1] fmask_0.1         RSAGA_0.93-6      plyr_1.8          shapefiles_0.7
> > foreign_0.8-55
> >  [6] gstat_1.0-18      data.table_1.8.10 rgdal_0.8-14      roxygen2_3.0.0
> > raster_2.1-68
> > [11] sp_1.0-14
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >  [1] brew_1.0-6       codetools_0.2-8  digest_0.6.3     grid_3.0.2
> > intervals_0.14.0 lattice_0.20-23
> >  [7] spacetime_1.0-9  stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.0.2      xts_0.9-7
> > zoo_1.7-10
> >
> > I will be very grateful of any help or piece of advice on how to fix
> that or
> > where to look for clues.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Guillaume
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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