[R-sig-Geo] spdep 0-4.13

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Roger Bivand wrote:

> 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.

The rapid release of spam_0.13-2 by Reinhard Furrer (many thanks!) has 
resolved the ade4 problem, so updating to the latest spdep is now OK also 
for ade4 users.

Roger

>
> Please let me know of any difficulties,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Roger
>
>

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Roger Bivand
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