[R-SIG-Mac] Warning: Mac OSX rgdal CRAN binary: proj gdal shared files missing

[Roger Bivand]

If you are using the Mac OSX rgdal CRAN binary, be warned that 1.2-5 is 
missing two directories containing projection metadata, including datum 
shift files and proj_defs.dat. The two directories were omitted from the 
CRAN binary build of 17 December 2016. The resolution is given in:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2017-January/025350.html

and reads:

Please see if you can download the equivalent Windows binary package:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/rgdal_1.2-5.zip

unzip it (do not install it), and copy the proj/ and gdal/ folders with
their contents to the folder shown (in R) by:

system.file("", package="rgdal")

For rgdal queries, always state verbatim the output of sessionInfo() and
the output of the startup messages shown when rgdal is loaded and
attached.

Roger Bivand
(rgdal source maintainer)

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