How to install the rgdal R package

rgdal_install.md

How to install the rgdal R package

> install.packages("rgdal")

• installing source package ‘rgdal’ ... configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.

The packages libgdal-dev and libproj-dev are required:

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev

Thanks!

On RedHat based systems like Fedora:
sudo dnf install gdal* expat* proj*

Then install.packages("rgdal")

This worked for me.

Just bumping this in case @statgeek or anyone else managed to solve the problem when there's no sudo access?

We upgraded our Unix version and that fixed it on our side but I had to wait 6 months for it.

Hi, I am using Ubuntu 18.04, R 3.4.4 (2018-03-15), and Rstudio 1.2.1335.

I ran sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev and got the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gdal-bin is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
gdal-bin set to manually installed.
libgdal-dev is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
libproj-dev is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.

After running install.packages("rgdal") I keep seen the following:
Installing package into ‘/home/fiorini/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘rgdal’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)

Could you please help me?

Thanks!

Works for me !!

Thanks!!

Hi, I am using Ubuntu 18.04, R 3.4.4 (2018-03-15), and Rstudio 1.2.1335.

I ran sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev and got the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gdal-bin is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
gdal-bin set to manually installed.
libgdal-dev is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
libproj-dev is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.

After running install.packages("rgdal") I keep seen the following:
Installing package into ‘/home/fiorini/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘rgdal’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)

Could you please help me?

Thanks!

Maybe this link could be useful!!!

https://philmikejones.me/tutorials/2014-07-14-installing-rgdal-in-r-on-linux/

Hi, I am using Ubuntu 18.04, R 3.4.4 (2018-03-15), and Rstudio 1.2.1335.
I ran sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev and got the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gdal-bin is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
gdal-bin set to manually installed.
libgdal-dev is already the newest version (2.2.3+dfsg-2).
libproj-dev is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin is already the newest version (4.9.3-2).
proj-bin set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
After running install.packages("rgdal") I keep seen the following:
Installing package into ‘/home/fiorini/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘rgdal’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)
Could you please help me?
Thanks!

Maybe this link could be useful!!!

https://philmikejones.me/tutorials/2014-07-14-installing-rgdal-in-r-on-linux/

Hi! Thank you!!!

Updating R to 3.6.2 solved the issue.

Best,

Cecilia

sudo dnf install gdal* expat* proj*

worked for me on Fedora 31.

For other old-fashioned users, as me, still on Ubuntu 16.04, first I needed to install R 3.6 from cran35 repo: I recommend you to follow the instructions described in the second answer to this question in stackoverflow.
And then I had to add and use the ubuntu-gis ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa to install the packages described above, because the version of gdal-bin in the official repo is not recent enough.

| sudo dnf install gdal* expat* proj*

noting that I still needed to download sqlite3-devel (sudo dnf install libsqlite3x-devel) on CentOS8, if anyone else encounters issues.

sudo dnf install gdal* expat* proj*

Even though it works, I found out that this command ends up installing too many dependencies, especially when (in my case) I only needed two packages to be able to compile the library's native code: sudo dnf install -y gdalcpp-devel proj-devel was the bare minimum I needed to install the library at the time.

Installing the package it gives me this error:

projectit.cpp:159:95: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘SEXP’
 P toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z SEXP aoi) {
                                                           ^~~~
projectit.cpp: In function ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’:
projectit.cpp:159:6: error: conflicting declaration of C function ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’
 SEXP transform_ng(SEXP fromargs, SEXP toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z SEXP aoi) {
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from projectit.cpp:11:0:
rgdal.h:132:6: note: previous declaration ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’
 SEXP transform_ng(SEXP fromargs, SEXP toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z, SEXP aoi); // both
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:176: recipe for target 'projectit.o' failed
make: *** [projectit.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rgdal’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal

Anyone knows how to fix this?

same error here

/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:177: recipe for target 'projectit.o' failed
make: *** [projectit.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rgdal’

on this system:

debian 9 stretch
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

any help for that?

Installing the package it gives me this error:

projectit.cpp:159:95: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘SEXP’
 P toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z SEXP aoi) {
                                                           ^~~~
projectit.cpp: In function ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’:
projectit.cpp:159:6: error: conflicting declaration of C function ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’
 SEXP transform_ng(SEXP fromargs, SEXP toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z SEXP aoi) {
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from projectit.cpp:11:0:
rgdal.h:132:6: note: previous declaration ‘SEXPREC* transform_ng(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP, SEXP)’
 SEXP transform_ng(SEXP fromargs, SEXP toargs, SEXP coordOp, SEXP npts, SEXP x, SEXP y, SEXP z, SEXP aoi); // both
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:176: recipe for target 'projectit.o' failed
make: *** [projectit.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rgdal’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal

Anyone knows how to fix this?

I installed rdgal from github with devtools:
devtools::install_github("CRAN/rgdal")

Somehow github rgdal compiles fine.

this worked for me (a workaround until the next new release for all platforms)

install.packages("rgdal", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

I've been trying to install in a server without having writing permissions. So far, I could get it installed through $ conda install -c conda-forge r-rgdal. But I keep getting this weird warning every time I try to read a raster.tif:

Warning message:
In showSRID(uprojargs, format = "PROJ", multiline = "NO") :
  Discarded datum Unknown based on GRS80 ellipsoid in CRS definition

When installing in my local ubuntu, the sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev works beautifully with no warnings while opening the same rasters.

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev has worked for me, thanks.
Ubuntu 20.04 R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)

Thank you!! This helped me.

Ended up here when installing dependencies for using "rgdal", "sp" and "raster" on up-to-date Linux on 20.04 package base without spatial libs installed on the system.

For me, libmysqlclient-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev were system libraries required on freshly installed Linux Mint 20.04 with R v 4.0.3 when installing from source R packages raster v 3.4-5 (2020-11-14), rgdal v 1.5-18 (2020-10-13) and sp v 1.4-4 (2020-10-07) from CRAN.

This OS setup doesn't seem to need or require use of ubuntugis PPA, which anyways doesn't have 20.04 focal packages. On https://rgdal.r-forge.r-project.org/index.html some docs mention that "it is important that 'GDAL' < 3 be matched with 'PROJ' < 6. From 'rgdal' 1.5-8, installed with to 'GDAL' >=3, 'PROJ' >=6 and 'sp' >= 1.4, coordinate reference systems use 'WKT2_2019' strings, not 'PROJ' strings. 'Windows' and 'macOS' binaries (including 'GDAL', 'PROJ' and their dependencies) are provided on 'CRAN'. "

The system libraries versions seem to play with that combination:

$ apt-cache policy libgdal-dev libproj-dev
libgdal-dev:
  Installed: 3.0.4+dfsg-1build3
libproj-dev:
  Installed: 6.3.1-1

R codes now show some new warnings, possibly due to now need to use "'WKT2_2019' strings, not 'PROJ' strings". Examples of how such warnings can look:

1: In wkt(projfrom) : CRS object has no comment
2: In showSRID(uprojargs, format = "PROJ", multiline = "NO", prefer_proj = prefer_proj) :
  Discarded ellps WGS 84 in CRS definition: +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs
3: In showSRID(uprojargs, format = "PROJ", multiline = "NO", prefer_proj = prefer_proj) :
  Discarded datum World Geodetic System 1984 in CRS definition
4: In wkt(pfrom) : CRS object has no comment
5: In rgdal::rawTransform(projfrom, projto, nrow(xy), xy[, 1], xy[,  :
  Using PROJ not WKT2 strings
6: In wkt(pfrom) : CRS object has no comment
7: In rgdal::rawTransform(projfrom, projto, nrow(xy), xy[, 1], xy[,  :
  Using PROJ not WKT2 strings
8: In rgdal::rawTransform(projto_int, projfrom, nrow(xy), xy[, 1],  :
  Using PROJ not WKT2 strings
9: In showSRID(uprojargs, format = "PROJ", multiline = "NO", prefer_proj = prefer_proj) :
  Discarded ellps WGS 84 in CRS definition: +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs
10: In showSRID(uprojargs, format = "PROJ", multiline = "NO", prefer_proj = prefer_proj) :
  Discarded datum World Geodetic System 1984 in CRS definition

I think one has to migrate old code that is using PROJ strings to use 'WKT2_2019' strings instead to get rid of the warnings while non-migrated code still seems to work (?).

hello,
I am new to ubuntu and my version is popOs 19.10.
and I am also new to github.

Sadly I get this erreor after trying to install rdgal in RStudio:

configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’

• removing ‘/home/me/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/rgdal’
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status

and the sudo commant presented before doesn't work for me.
has anyone more wisdom and knowledge and can help me please

thank you

If you have docker you could try to leapfrog installing the system libraries altogether with this oneliner docker run -d --name geospatial -p 8787:8787 -v /home/me:/home/rstudio -e PASSWORD=rocker rocker/geospatial:3.6.3 && sleep 5 && firefox http://localhost:8787 which gets everything needed in an isolated environment which includes all dependencies needed.

If the command you used didn't work, and you don't want to "cheat" by using a container, the error messages you have might lead you in the right direction (try searching on the error message at SO or in another search engine). When I do dpkg -l | grep gdal I have libgdal-dev listed, which I believe gave gdal-config (I'm not on popOS but on an earlier Ubuntu base). The command apt-file search gdal-config seems to agree that it should come in libgdal-dev (but I'm on Ubuntu 18 base).

Thanks! It worked for me

Just bumping this in case @statgeek or anyone else managed to solve the problem when there's no sudo access?

Try this SO page https://askubuntu.com/questions/193695/installing-packages-into-local-directory it helped me.

Many thanks. It worked
Muito obrigado pela dica

Many thanks, that fixed it!

Hi, I used

> install.packages("rgdal", repos="https://cloud.r-project.org/")

worked like a charm

Didier

P.S.
the normal install gave (I had also tried another CRAN repo):

in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
download from 'https://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/CRAN/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/rgdal_1.5-28.tgz' failed
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
downloaded length 19824640 != reported length 91041577
2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
URL 'https://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/CRAN/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/rgdal_1.5-28.tgz': Timeout of 60 seconds was reached
Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
download of package ‘rgdal’ failed

Thanks :)

Hello
I couldn't install RGDAL. Please help.

install.packages("rgdal", type = "source")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Hossein/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘rgdal’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

Firstly, make sure you're using the correct version of R compatible with the package. If you're using the latest version of R, it's possible that rgdal has not yet been updated to be compatible with it. Em qui., 8 de fev. de 2024 às 04:35, Hossein Yousefi < ***@***.***> escreveu:

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