Cannot Install Rgdal Package in R on Rhel6, Unable to Load Shared Object Rgdal.So

Error loading rgdal

You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /home/nikhail1/bin/gdal/lib, i.e. in bash

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/nikhail1/bin/gdal/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
ldd /home/nikhail1/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so

should report libgdal.so.20 as been found. How to make this persistent depends on your desktop environment.

rgdal package installation

I f you look at the package page on CRAN, you will see the following :

SystemRequirements: for building from source: GDAL >= 1.7.1 library
from http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource and PROJ.4 (proj >= 4.4.9) from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/; GDAL OSX frameworks built by William Kyngesburye at http://www.kyngchaos.com/ may be used for
source installs on OSX.

As you seem to be under Linux, you always build package from source, so you will have to install the corresponding libraries on your system. If you are under Mint, Ubuntu or another Debian derivative, you can do :

$ sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev libproj-dev

One tip that can be useful, still under a Debian based system, is to install the apt-file package and run :

$ sudo apt-file update

Then, when you get an error such as :

configure: error: proj_api.h not found in standard or given locations.

You can use the following command to find which package you must install to get the missing file :

$ apt-file search proj_api.h
libproj-dev: /usr/include/proj_api.h

Trouble installing rgdal package in R 3.3.0

Wild guess: you could try to reinstall sp before, just to have any dependency up-to-date.

Shinyapp.io cannot load rgdal package

From within Shinyapps.io , under the app's advanced settings, I unchecked the "Package Cache" and then redeployed. Then it worked. This solution was suggested by the rstudio support team.

how to install rgdal package

It should be sufficient to run install.packages('rgdal'). R will ask you to select a mirror where the "0-Cloud [https]" mirror should work. The package rgdal is available there. The mentioned repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin does not provide the R package.