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

I got the answer from this blog:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/312294/once-installed-geos-library-c-and-c-and-then-trying-to-install-rgeos-packa

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Install the libgeos-dev  package with your favourite package manager (or software centre) and you'll have /usr/bin/geos-config.

How did I find this? I used the query geos-config for files on the http://packages.ubuntu.com/webpage. This will list the package you need (query link). Use this next time when you run into similar issues!

The above link is :

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/libgeos-dev/