[R] Installing rgdal in R: correct -configure flags for GDAL install on Linux Redhat

Katrina Bennett
Fri, 06 May 2011 01:23:56 -0000

Hi, I'm installing rgdal but I keep having failures because I have not been
able to find a good source of information for the correct configuration
settings when installing GDAL.

My error from the R install.packages("rgdal") is below.

Can someone point me to a good source to tell me how to set after
./configure when installing GDAL?

I'd like to be able to work with raster images, geotiffs, netCDF files, and
other raster-based image processing in R.

Right now I'm running ./configure for GDAL as follows:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/gdal/gdal-1.8.0 --with
jasper=$HOME/local/jasper/jasper-1.900.1.uuid/src/libjasper

Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Error output from R:
* installing *source* package 'rgdal' ...
gdal-config: gdal-config
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking proj_api.h usability... no
checking proj_api.h presence... no
checking for proj_api.h... no
Error: proj_api.h not found.
If the PROJ.4 library is installed in a non-standard location,
use --configure-args='--with-proj-
include=/opt/local/include'
for example, replacing /opt/local/* with appropriate values
for your installation. If PROJ.4 is not installed, install it.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
* removing
'/import/home/u1/uaf/kbennett/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.11/rgdal'








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