[R-sig-Geo] sp for R V2.1.0

[David Forrest]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Stephane Dray wrote:

> Dear David,
> you can simply add the line :
>
> deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable/
>
> to your sources.list. You can then obtain newer R versions for stable Debian.

Perfect.  That seems exactly like what I want.

Thanks,
Dave


>
> Sincerely.
>
>
> Selon "Edzer J. Pebesma" <e.pebesma at geo.uu.nl>:
>
>> David Forrest wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Does the install.packages('sp') on my R V2.1.0 (Debian Stable) report:
>>>
>>>     no package 'sp' at the repositories in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir
>>>     = tmpd, available = available
>>>
>>> ... because sp from CRAN depends on "R (>= 2.4.0), methods" ?
>>>
>>> The machine is a production server, and I'd like to not mix the
>>> Debian releases on it if I can avoid it.  Its using some rusty old
>>> scripts with library(maps) on it.
>>>
>>> Would you advise a separate R 2.4.0 + install for using sp on these
>>> machines?
>>>
>> Dave,
>>
>> library(maps) does not require sp. If you want to use sp, it doesn't
>> sound rusty to me. Alternatively, you could try to find sp sources that
>> were there when R was 2.1.0 (were they of any use back then?), perhaps
>> in some CRAN area that I couldn't find, or wait until Debian Etch
>> becomes stable, it has R 2.4.0. The general R attitude seems to be to
>> keep up with R release, don't expect backports of current packages.
>>
>> Hth,
>> --
>> Edzer
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