Hi @Debayan Mukherjee​ thanks for your reply, here are my R/Databricks details and the 3 main libraries and errors i am encountering:

platform    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu          

version.string R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)

Runtime

11.3.x-scala2.12

11.3 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.3.0, Scala 2.12)

gdal

%r

install.packages("gdal", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

Installing package into ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

Warning: package ‘gdal’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,

see the ideas at

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

terra

%r

install.packages("terra", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

* installing *source* package ‘terra’ ...

** package ‘terra’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

** using staged installation

configure: CC: gcc

configure: CXX: g++ -std=gnu++14

checking for gdal-config... no

no

configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘terra’

* removing ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08/terra’

Installing package into ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/terra_1.7-29.tar.gz'

Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 806064 bytes (787 KB)

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downloaded 787 KB

Warning in utils::install.packages(pkgs, ...) :

 installation of package ‘terra’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in

‘/tmp/RtmpPqEEXP/downloaded_packages’

raster

%r

install.packages("raster", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

* installing *source* package ‘terra’ ...

** package ‘terra’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

** using staged installation

configure: CC: gcc

configure: CXX: g++ -std=gnu++14

checking for gdal-config... no

no

configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘terra’

* removing ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08/terra’

ERROR: dependency ‘terra’ is not available for package ‘raster’

* removing ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08/raster’

Installing package into ‘/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/rEnv-93f5aa20-8204-42c9-b813-cda1cb27ae08’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

also installing the dependency ‘terra’

trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/terra_1.7-29.tar.gz'

Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 806064 bytes (787 KB)

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downloaded 787 KB