[R-sig-Geo] sp_0.9-16 source on CRAN

[Roger Bivand]

A new version of the foundation sp package is reaching CRAN mirrors, and 
Windows and OSX binaries should follow within a day or so. There is a 
significant change in how SpatialGrid objects are created, which we hope 
will not affect users negatively, and which is giving a two orders of 
magnitude speedup for reading larger rasters (single band 900 by 3600 down 
from 12 minutes to 6 seconds on an older 1.5GHz machine).

If anyone sees any negative impacts, please contact the authors 
immediately directly.

Roger

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Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no