I have been trying to install rgdal on R 3.4.2 (RStudio 1.1.383) and ubuntu 16.04 but it always end with a problem.
I have followed many recommendations like manual
I have finally been able to find a solution.
I followed the answer of this post
The miracle code is
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable sudo apt update sudo apt install gdal-bin python-gdal python3-gdal libgdal1-dev
thank you for your help