[R-sig-Geo] R 2.12.0 and rgdal

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>
>> Dear list members.
>> 
>> I have just updated to R 2.12.0, and see that the ‘rgdal’ package isn’t 
>> available for installing from CRAN. Is it just a matter of time before it’s 
>> available, or are there some technical problems?
>
> No, the migration of binaries for Windows for both 32 and 64 bit has led to 
> rgdal being provided from the CRAN extras repository rather than on CRAN 
> mirrors, because of the extensive external dependencies, see:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe
>
> On OSX one says:
>
> setRepositories(ind=1:2)
> install.packages("rgdal")
>
> but I don't have access now to a Windows installation, so cannot check the 
> incantation. If those interested could check, I'll summarise to the list.

Two users have confirmed that the same incantation works. On my fresh 
32-bit Windows R binary, my Packages -> Select repositories ... menu 
chooses both CRAN and CRAN (extras) by default, and when used the first 
time will replace CRAN by the mirror selected from a further menu. I'm 
running plain:

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)

on a local library defined in the R_LIBS environment variable, and this 
(as well as being the advised way of managing packages) picks up CRAN 
extras automatically for other packages too, because it is pre-chosen. So 
two conclusions so far:

1)

setRepositories(ind=1:2)
install.packages("rgdal")

works;

2)

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)

works without setting the repository if you have a local library as 
described in the Windows FAQ, point 4.2. The CRAN extras rgdal includes a 
copy of GDAL 1.7.1, we'll try to move to 1.7.2 when the road bump of 
making R windows binaries multi-architectures passes.

Experiences of those running the 64-bit Windows implementation are 
invited!

Roger



>
> Roger
>
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>> Karl Ove Hufthammer
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