Binder cannot install a requirement (GDAL)

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This thread might be helpful:

Error in library(rgdal): there is no package called ‘rgdal’ Traceback:

I think I got past that issue in my repo where I’m trying to run Tyler Morgan-Wall’s excellent rayshader package. I think I put related dependencies in apt.txt, such as libgdal-dev and libproj-dev. See here. You’ll come across the need to use apt.txt to get ubuntu to install some basic libraries fairly regularly. Search apt.txt on this page. And you’ll get a sense of that being a common usage pattern, and see here and consider it in the light of the quote manics pasted above from the rgdal CRAN…