Something wrong with rgeos 0.4-1?

November 7, 2018
`R` `rgeos` `R package` `GIS`

The last update of rgeos (version 0.4-1) was released on October 19th, 2018 and with my current R set up:

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R> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

I got the following error:

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checking geos_c.h  presence and usability... yes
checking geos: linking with libgeos_c... no
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgeos
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’
* removing ‘/home/kevcaz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/rgeos’

My version of libgeos-dev is 3.7.0-1 and I think I had this before the update of the R package. I tried to find a way to fix this and found this answer on claiming that it is a bug. The build indeed fails for r-release-linux-x86_64 but there is no more details… So, as recommended in the answer, I downgraded to version 0.3-28:

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

Hopefully this will be fixed soon!

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