Rgdal package installation on Amazon Linux AMI

问题

I've installed geos, proj-4.8.0 and gdal-1.9.2, yet, after installing the R package rgeos, rgdal fails to install.

Here is a look at my home directory:

. . . and the error I get running install.packages("rgdal", type="source"):

** building package indices ** installing vignettes ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/mainstorage/michaeld/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so': libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: loading failed Execution halted ERROR: loading failed * removing ‘/mainstorage/michaeld/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1/rgdal’

The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmpt51iFG/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("rgdal", type = "source") : installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status

I infer that this error has something to do with a dependent library. . . but that is all I gather.

I should mention that running sudo yum install libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libgeos libgeos-dev as suggested here yields the following:

No package libgdal1 available. No package libgdal1-dev available. Package geos-3.4.2-1.3.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version No package libgeos-dev available.

So, perhaps the better question is how do I install these dev packages?

Thanks for any direction.