rgdal, sf and lwgeom build instructions for CentOS 7 fails.

[andrie]

I'm trying to install the packages rgdal, sf and lwgeom on CentOS-7 to replicate a customer request.

The instructions on Public RSPM says to use:

rpm -q epel-release || yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install -y gdal-devel
yum install -y gdal
yum install -y proj-devel
yum install -y proj-epsg

But this fails for me, with versions of gdal and geos that are out of date.

To reproduce, I tried these instructions in a Dockerfile:

FROM rstudio/r-base:3.6.0-centos7
# Install sf dependencies
RUN rpm -q epel-release || yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum install -y \
        epel-release \
        udunits2-devel \
        gdal-devel \
        geos-devel \
        proj-devel \
        proj-epsg
RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("Rcpp"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'
RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("rgdal"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'
RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("sf"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'
RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("lwgeom"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'

But this fails with an error:

checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 1.11.4
checking GDAL version >= 2.0.1... no

And similarly for geos

[andrie]

FWIW, I have found a workaround by installing geos from the PostgreSQL rpms. Here is my working Dockerfile:

FROM rstudio/r-base:3.6.0-centos7

RUN wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal-2.4.0.tar.gz


# Install gdal

RUN tar xf gdal-2.4.0.tar.gz && \
        cd gdal-2.4.0/ && \
        ./configure && \
        make -j4 && \

        udunits2-devel \
        proj-devel \
        proj-epsg \
        openssl-devel

# Install geos using PostGres rpms at https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/

RUN yum install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

RUN yum install -y geos-devel

# Install R packages


RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("Rcpp"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'

RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("rgdal"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'


RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("lwgeom"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'

RUN Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("sf"), repos = c(CRAN = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/centos7/latest"))'