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RGDAL installation fail after yum upgrade

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, David.GIOVANNINI at ext.ec.europa.eu wrote:

            
On a cluster running which very outdated version of which operating 
system? How did you install PROJ and GDAL, hopefully from source? How did 
you install R, again hopefully from source? If you install from source, 
your upstream binaries should only use the limited resources of your 
outdated platform; if you install binary packages, those packages will 
make brave and possibly untrue assumptions about your platform. It is also 
very possible that you have multiple versions of GDAL and/or PROJ on your 
systems, and that (parts of) configure and install find different 
versions. In particular, at least one version of PROJ does not have 
pj_ctx_* file access functions, needed in several places.

If you can't fix your systems (PROJ 4.8.0 was released in 2012, over 6 
years ago), use a version of rgdal, GDAL and driver software to match your 
vintage. Possibly your compile trains are also very outdated too.

Maintainers cannot be expected to keep current package versions running 
smoothly on ancient platforms (although we try to help) without active 
contributions from interested users. Provide patches to configure.ac that 
work for you and do not have any negative impacts on current systems, or 
keep your systems more up to date.

Roger