Installing gdal >2.0.1 to work with RStudio in CentOS 7 in order for the sf package to install successfully

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I'm trying to install gdal >2.0.1 and configure it with RStudio so that I can install the sf package.
I'm on CentOS 7.

First, I tried installing gdal using the below code and it successfully installed gdal version 1.11.4

sudo yum install gdal
sudo yum install gdal gdal-devel

Then I followed the steps in the answer of the below post to upgrade to version 2.4.0:

Installing gdal 2.0.1 or higher on CentOS 7.7

We are running RStudio Server Pro on CentOS 7.7. We'd like to install the sf package which is dependent upon gdal 2.0.1 or higher. Can someone explain to us how we install gdal?

The steps were:

sudo yum-builddep gdal
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal-2.4.0.tar.gz
tar xf gdal-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd gdal-2.4.0/
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
# make sure the library can be found
echo /usr/local/lib | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf
sudo ldconfig

This installed version 2.4.0 successfully on the machine, however RStudio is not able to detect this version.

Running the below line in RStudio, returns: "1.11.4"

system2("gdal-config","--version")

How can I configure RStudio to detect the updated gdal?

[rstub]

Mixing two versions of a library on one system can be difficult. You could get rid of the version installed via yum if you don't need it:

sudo yum erase gdal gdal-devel

After that the newer version should be found.

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That worked! Thank you!