[El] Problem installing 'rgdal' package under R 2.12.1 and gdal 1.7.3

[Mathieu Baudier]

>> Please tell us if it solved your problem.
>
> Not sure.
>
> After doing as you mentioned, I was able to install 'rgdal' without any
> problem, but when it is loaded, I see that the GDAL library associated
> with the 'rgdal' package is 1.7.2 and NOT the 1.7.3 that I just
> installed:
>
>> library(rgdal)
> Loading required package: sp
> Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
> Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.7.2, released 2010/04/23
> Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/local/share/gdal
> Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
> Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
>
> Do you have any guess about the possible origin of this problem ?

Did you clean the GDAL (1.7.2) related stuff under /usr/local/lib and
/usr/local/share?
I am afraid that the system is still finding GDAL 1.7.2 libraries (not
executables) there.