Using the latest GDAL with R packages on macOS - redux
As an update to an earlier post, here’s how to use the latest versions of GDAL/PROJ with R spatial packages.
Install GDAL
brew install pkg-config
brew install gdal
(Re)install R spatial packages
Next, we need to install a few packages from source in order to use the new GDAL libraries:
## (re)install spatial packages from source
install.packages(c("rgeos", "sf", "sp"), type = "source")
## rgdal requires some additional configuration to build correctly:
## based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/26836125/1380598
install.packages("rgdal", type = "source",
configure.args = c("--with-proj-include=/usr/local/include",
"--with-proj-lib=/usr/local/lib"))
library(rgdal) ## confirm the GDAL version being used
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