I found that I have libgdal1-dev installed too. john@john-J6-2015 ~ $ dpkg -l | grep gdal ii libgdal-dev 1.10.1+dfsg-5ubuntu1 amd64 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files ii libgdal1-dev 1.10.1+dfsg-5ubuntu1 all Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Transitional package ii libgdal1h 1.10.1+dfsg-5ubuntu1 amd64 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library john@john-J6-2015 ~ $
and I get the following outputs in R: > library(rgdal) Loading required package: sp rgdal: version: 1.1-10, (SVN revision 622) Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.10.1, released 2013/08/26 Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/share/gdal/1.10 Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012, [PJ_VERSION: 480] Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected) Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 > sessionInfo() R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] rgdal_1.1-10 sp_1.2-3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_3.3.1 lattice_0.20-33 > Hope this is helpful. JN On 16-10-04 02:19 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > I have recently acquired a new laptop and a new OS (Ubuntu 16.04) and have > encountered a problem when trying to install > rgdal. > > The initial hiccups were overcome by installing "libgdal-dev" and > "libproj-dev" on my system, and then re-installing the > package "sp" (as advised by postings that I googled up on StackOverflow. > > But then I came to a shuddering halt when I got the following error response > to run > install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") > > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : > unable to load shared object '/home/rolf/Rlib/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so': > /home/rolf/Rlib/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so: undefined symbol: CPLQuietErrorHandler > > I've googled around a bit on that and could find nothing that I could > comprehend. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Ta. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.