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

[Mauricio Zambrano]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 12:51 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > Looking for 'gdal-config' in my file system, I realised that the only
> > version that I have is the one corresponding to an old version of gdal
> > (1.7.2), which I compiled form source.
> 
> Remove this one as well.

It was moved to a personal directory, not present in my PATH.

> 
> > May it be that the version 1.7.3 of gdal for RHEL doesn't include this
> > 'gdal-config- file ?
> 
> When you look for a missing file, try:
> 
> sudo yum provides */gdal-config
> 
> In this case this file is part of the gdal-devel package:
> 
> sudo yum install gdal-devel

Done.

> 
> 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 ?


BTW, typing now:


$ sudo yum provides */gdal-config


I got:

Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
gdal-1.7.2-5_0.el5.elgis.i386 : GIS file format
                              : library
Repo        : elgis
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : elgis
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.3-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_1.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-1.7.2-5_1.el5.elgis.i386 : GIS file format
                              : library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.3-1_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.2-5_2.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-1.7.2-5_2.el5.elgis.i386 : GIS file format
                              : library
Repo        : elgis-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 : Development Libraries
     ...: for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config



gdal-devel-1.7.3-3_0.el5.elgis.i386 : Development
     ...: Libraries for the GDAL file format library
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gdal-config


Thanks in advance,

Mauricio
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