Unable to install rgdal and rgeos R libraries on Red hat linux

Question

I have error while compiling rgdal adn rgoes package on our redhat linux machine. I tried to do some research but couldn't find a possible solution. Could you please help me with this as this is very important for me to solve.

**ERROR WHILE COMPILING RGDAL in R 3.0**

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* installing *source* package ârgdalâ ...
** package ârgdalâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgdal: 0.8-10
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
configure: svn revision: 496
configure: gdal-config: gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... ./configure: line 1397: gdal-config: command not found
no
Error: gdal-config not found
The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
download the source from  http://www.gdal.org/
If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
--configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config'
with appropriate values for your installation.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ârgdalâ


*****ERROR WHILE COMPILING RGEOS:*****
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* installing *source* package ârgeosâ ...
** package ârgeosâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgeos: 0.2-17
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
configure: svn revision: 413M
checking geos-config usability... ./configure: line 1385: geos-config: command not found
no
configure: error: geos-config not usable
ERROR: configuration failed for package ârgeosâ

Answer 1

On fedora 20 you need to install geos and geos-devel !

sudo yum install geos geos-devel

After that the compilation in R work well!

** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (gstat)

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/Rtmp9ciIzG/downloaded_packages’

Answer 2

I'm not on redhat (I'm on Ubuntu) so someone who is may be able to give better package names.. . But, when installing packages from source, you need the dev of the required libraries. In this case, you probably need to install:

libgdal1-dev
libgeos-dev

So:

yum install libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libgeos libgeos-dev

Then in R:

install.packages('gdal')

this is untested, since I don't want all the extra packages associated with those two!