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

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> Roger, 
> I've done:
> root at alobo-laptop:/home/alobo# cvs -z3
> -d:pserver:anonymous at r-spatial.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/r-spatial co -P
> spGDAL

NO!

rgdal is rgdal project, rgdal module, just search for rgdal on opening sf:

-d:pserver:anonymous at rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rgdal co -P rgdal

Roger

PS. CVS anywhere is great as an archive, but it is very difficult to 
delete things. As you saw, the r-spatial project on sourceforge has very 
many deprecated modules, which are of historical interest only.


> cvs checkout: Updating spGDAL
> cvs checkout: Updating spGDAL/R
> cvs checkout: Updating spGDAL/man
>
> but then
> root at alobo-laptop:/home/alobo# R CMD check rgdal
> * checking for working pdflatex ... OK
> * using log directory '/home/alobo/rgdal.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * checking for file 'rgdal/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'rgdal' version '0.6-20'
> * checking package name space information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... WARNING
> Subdirectory 'rgdal/src' contains object files.
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'rgdal' can be installed ... ERROR
> Installation failed.
> See '/home/alobo/rgdal.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
>
> The end of 00install.out is:
> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> installing to /home/alobo/rgdal.Rcheck/rgdal/libs
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Error in matchSignature(signature, fdef) :
>  more elements in the method signature (2) than in the generic  signature
> (1)
> Error : unable to load R code in package 'rgdal'
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘rgdal’
> * removing ‘/home/alobo/rgdal.Rcheck/rgdal’
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is the package missing some component?
>
> BTW, is rgdal becoming spGDAL ? 
>
> Agus
>
>
>
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