[R-sig-Geo] spdep 0-4.13

[Roger Bivand]

A new release of spdep has been published on CRAN and will spread to a 
mirror near you soon. It includes faster sparse matrix computation in 
maximum likelihood model fitting, and code for exact global and local 
Moran's I tests contributed by Markus Reder.

Please note two issues: spdep now depends on the spam package (another 
sparse matrix implementation), so that just updating spdep will not be 
enough, and spam needs to be installed too, unless you already have it 
(users of the fields package will probably have it if you update 
regularly).

The second issue is that the ade4 package is currently unable to load 
spdep in functions that need this dependence, because of spdep's new 
dependence on spam. We are working on this, and a suggested fix for spam 
has been sent to its maintainer. So ade4 users who do not need extra spdep 
functionality may choose not to update spdep until this issue has been 
resolved.

Please let me know of any difficulties,

Happy New Year!

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