[R-sig-Geo] readOGR(): stringsAsFactors

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> Roger,
>
> I've tried but:
>> install.packages("rgdal",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> Warning in install.packages("rgdal", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> :
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'

Wrong, I'm afraid. You need to check out or update the source package from 
CVS on *sourceforge*, not a package install from R-Forge. We've considered 
moving to R-Forge, but unless the binary dependencies can be installed 
there, the gains would be minimal.

Roger

> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ‘rgdal’ is not available
>
> am I not using the right repo?
>
> Agus
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