Unable to install ‘sf’ R package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Question

I'm not able to install sf R package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I tried

install.packages("sf")

as well as

devtools::install_github("r-spatial/sf")

after running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev

Getting the following error message:

configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘sf’

Wonder what is the way to install sf?

Try and run gdal-config on the Linux command line. If it doesn't run, it might tell you what package you need for it. If it does run (it should just print a usage message explaining its arguments), something weird is going on and you should maybe log out and in again.... On my system it comes from libgdal-dev which you say you've installed but let's see... — Spacedman, Commented Feb 6, 2018 at 7:55

MYaseen208 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-08 04:10:16Z

8

This worked for me. Using

sudo aptitude install libgdal-dev

and then

devtools::install_github("r-spatial/sf")

answered Feb 8, 2018 at 4:10

MYaseen208

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In Ubuntu 18.04 installing libgdal-dev was enough
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Commented Feb 9, 2019 at 14:51
Be sure to install default-libmysqlclient-dev on Debian first, otherwise libgdal-dev installation will fail. If you already have MariaDB installed, it will reroute to default-libmariadbclient-dev automatically.
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Commented Mar 21, 2019 at 20:35

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Aayush Acharya · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-31 02:27:51Z

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For Arch users make sure you have gcc-fortran installed as the dependencies of sf require it specially if you are compiling from source.

sudo pacman -S gcc-fortran

Then make sure you have the following packages installed.

sudo pacman -S gdal proj geos

Finally udunits is not available in the main repos but in AUR repositories.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/udunits.git
cd udunits/
makepkg -si

You may use yay if you please.

answered May 31, 2020 at 2:27

Aayush Acharya

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