Let's try to debug the problem you are facing. After applying the
attached patch, please provide the complete outputs of the following
commands. If the output is too long, feel free to send it as an email
attachment.

$ ./pre-inst-env guix build r-gdal

$ ./pre-inst-env guix environment --container --ad-hoc r r-rgdal -- Rscript -e 'library(rgdal); dsn <- system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1]; ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="cities")'

Thank you for your patience! Cheers! :-)