The problem
I was trying to install SF again in my Ubuntu 18.04 machine, because it was giving me some problems. Since I wanted to start everything clean I tried the following:
remove.packages("sf")
install.packages("sf")
This however resulted in the following error.
checking GDAL: checking whether PROJ is available fur running:... double free or corruption (out)
./configure: line 3625: 20789 Aborted (core dumped) ./gdal_proj
no
configure: error: OGRCoordinateTransformation() does not return a coord.trans: PROJ not available?
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘sf’
* removing ‘/home/derek/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/sf’
When I saw the message double free or corruption (out) I looked and realized it is a c++ problem as shown in this link and this link. But even when I know the problem is suposed to be in PROJ, I don't even know where to start.
What I have tried.
I tried to reinstall rgdal to see if that magically fixed the problem doing the same as above
remove.packages("rgdal")
install.packages("rgdal")
which led to a similar result
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
double free or corruption (!prev)
Aborted (core dumped)
I don't know how to get to PROJ through the terminal.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Update
Just an update, after the comment from Nate. I reinstalled PROJ, it keeps the same error, just to show you more of the error, this is the message:
checking GDAL: checking whether PROJ is available for linking:... yes
checking GDAL: checking whether PROJ is available fur running:... double free or corruption (out)
./configure: line 3625: 22371 Aborted (core dumped) ./gdal_proj
no
configure: error: OGRCoo
So it says that PROJ is available, but there is a corruption, I am not sure how to solve that, should I unistall something?