Ubuntu 16.04 R Installation: configure: gdal-config not found or not executable
System info:
Ubuntu 16.04
64 bit
I'm trying to install rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz for a research project. I looked here and did
sudo apt-get install libgdal1i
R CMD INSTALL rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz
* installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 1.2-16
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 701
checking for gdal-config... no
no
configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal’
So then I tried opening R:
R
> install.packages('/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz', repos = NULL, type="source")
but got
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 1.2-16
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 701
checking for gdal-config... no
no
configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal’
Warning message:
In install.packages("/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz", repos = NULL, :
installation of package ‘/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
Please point out where I am missing something
More info that may help:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/openblas-base/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/libopenblasp-r0.2.18.so
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 base
other attached packages:
[1] sp_1.2-7
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.3 grid_3.4.3 lattice_0.20-35
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Edit:
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I ran
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
and reran
> install.packages('/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz', repos = NULL, type="source")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 1.2-16
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 701
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin//gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 1.11.3
checking GDAL version >= 1.6.3... yes
checking gdal: linking with --libs only... yes
checking GDAL: /usr/share/gdal/1.11/pcs.csv readable... yes
configure: -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -I/usr/include/gdal
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 ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal’
Warning message:
In install.packages("/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz", repos = NULL, :
installation of package ‘/home/n/Downloads/rgdal_1.2-16.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
Answer
You have to install gdal, proj & geos on your Linux system.
sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev gdal-bin libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin libgeos-dev
To compile yourself, see this script (backup)
Edit: For Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic or Mint 19 Tara
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev gdal-bin libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin libgeos-dev