BwUniCluster2.0/Software/R/Rgdal

Installation instructions

Consider starting an interactive job for compiling. Copy and paste the following to your shell.

module load math/R
# Get sources
mkdir -p ~/src
cd ~/src
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.2/gdal-2.2.2.tar.gz
wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.6.2.tar.bz2
wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.9.3.tar.gz
# Not using git version
#git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4.git

# Build gdal
tar xf gdal-2.2.2.tar.gz
cd gdal-2.2.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME/sw
make -j4
make install
cd ..

# Build geos
tar xf geos-3.6.2.tar.bz2
cd geos-3.6.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME/sw
make -j4
make install
cd ..

# Build proj.4
# Not using git version
#cd proj.4
#git checkout 4.9.3 -b 4.9.3
#git branch
#autoreconf -i
tar xf proj-4.9.3.tar.gz
cd proj-4.9.3
./configure --prefix=$HOME/sw
make -j4
make install
cd ..

# Set up environment (you may want to put these lines in your ~/.bashrc as well)
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/sw/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/sw/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$HOME/sw/lib/pkgconfig  
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/sw/man
export GDAL_DATA=$HOME/sw/share/gdal
export CFLAGS=-I$HOME/sw/include

# Install rgdal and rgeos packages from within R session
R -q
# Problem with too many arguments
#install.packages("rgdal", configure.args = c("--with-proj-include=~/sw/include", "--with-proj-lib=~/sw/lib", "--with-proj-share=~/sw/share/proj"))
install.packages("rgdal")
install.packages("rgeos")
library("rgdal")
library("rgeos")