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I'm trying to install the package rgeos on linux. I get the following error:

system("sudo apt-get update") system("sudo apt install libgdal-dev -y") install.packages("rgeos") collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status configure: Install failure: compilation and/or linkage problems. configure: error: initGEOS_r not found in libgeos_c. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’

I have already install the dev libgdal and it returns the "already installed" info if I try to run the sudo again.

How can I fix this? Thanks in advance!

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  • This might help stackoverflow.com/a/49181048 Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 3:42
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    Same here on ubuntu 16.04 / R 3.5.1 and the solution in the thread linked by Tung didn't help, everything was already installed. Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 11:37
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    Looks like it is something specific to 0.4-1 version of rgeos as 0.3-28 is running fine here but update cannot be done because of this issue. Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 11:59
  • If it's an archive issue I'll try grabbing rgeos archive from CRAN via devtools::install_version Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 0:11
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    It's a bug, developer has replied on this thread on the R-sig-geo mailing list. r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/… Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 21:58

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It is a bug, you could use this to install lower stable version.

install.packages("devtools") library(devtools) install_version("rgeos", version = "0.3-28")

After this code all should be fine.

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