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I've been trying various suggestions on the many threads discussing how to install rgdal onto Ubuntu 16.04, and am still having trouble.

Here's where I've gotten to, after many false attempts. I tried the answer here (trouble in installing rgdal on ubuntu 16.04):

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gdal-bin python-gdal python3-gdal libgdal1-dev

This mostly worked, except that for libgdal1-dev, my package manager says the available version is 1.11.3, and that seemed to be giving me difficulties (not sure I can replicate at this stage), so I used Synaptic to uninstall that package and to install libgdal-dev instead, which had been flagged by Synaptic.

So at this point, according to Synaptic, when I do a search for "gdal", the installed files that show up are gdal-bin, gdal-data, libgdal-dev, libgdal20, python-gdal, and python3-gdal.

At this point, when I open R and run install.packages("rgdal"), this is what I get back:

Installing package into ‘/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgdal_1.3-4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1664774 bytes (1.6 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.6 MB

* installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: R_HOME: /usr/lib/R
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: C++11 support available
configure: rgdal: 1.3-4
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 766
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 2.2.2
checking GDAL version >= 1.11.4... yes
checking gdal: linking with --libs only... yes
checking GDAL: /usr/share/gdal/2.2/pcs.csv readable... yes
configure: pkg-config proj exists, will use it
configure: PROJ version: 4.9.2
checking proj_api.h presence and usability... yes
checking PROJ version >= 4.8.0... yes
checking projects.h presence and usability... yes
checking PROJ.4: epsg found and readable... yes
checking PROJ.4: conus found and readable... yes
configure: Package CPP flags:  -I/usr/include/gdal
configure: Package LIBS:  -L/usr/lib -lgdal -lproj
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c OGR_write.cpp -o OGR_write.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c gdal-bindings.cpp -o gdal-bindings.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c init.c -o init.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c inverser.c -o inverser.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c local_stubs.c -o local_stubs.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c ogr_geom.cpp -o ogr_geom.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c ogr_polygons.c -o ogr_polygons.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c ogr_proj.cpp -o ogr_proj.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c ogrdrivers.cpp -o ogrdrivers.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c ogrsource.cpp -o ogrsource.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/gdal -I"/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/sp/include"    -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c projectit.cpp -o projectit.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o rgdal.so OGR_write.o gdal-bindings.o init.o inverser.o local_stubs.o ogr_geom.o ogr_polygons.o ogr_proj.o ogrdrivers.o ogrsource.o projectit.o -L/usr/lib -lgdal -lproj -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal/libs
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘rgdal’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so':
  /home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10OGRFeature17GetFieldAsIntegerEi
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/home/[username]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/Rtmpuc6qcT/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgdal") :
  installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status

I did a search for the error message, and found this question (Cannot install rgdal package in R on RHEL6, unable to load shared object rgdal.so), so tried running

ldconfig -c "echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/R-dependencies-x86_64.conf"

but it doesn't seem to do anything and I'm still getting the same error message when I try to install rgdal.

Where do I go from here?

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I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 but I just got the same problem (exact same error log) the solution for me was to link rgdal to a custom built of gdal. I was lucky enough that for other reason I already had a copy of GDAL (git master) built from source in /usr/local/gdal. So to install rgdal from source all i needed was to:

  • wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgdal_1.3-4.tar.gz
  • sudo R CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/gdal/bin/gdal-config rgdal_1.3-4.tar.gz

If you go this path, make sure your gdal installation has all the projection data installed in the expected location, mine wasn't so I had to add an extra step:

  • sudo cp -r /path/to/gdal-src-code/gdal/data/* /usr/local/gdal/share/gdal/
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