[R-sig-Geo] Had to revert to install of older geosphere package

[Gavan McGrath]

I could not install geosphere_1.2-18 in R 2.9.2 on Ubuntu - Karmic.
But I could install geosphere_1.2-7.

Here's the log for those who may be interested.

> install.packages("geosphere")
Warning in install.packages("geosphere") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/contrib/geosphere_1.2-18.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2488736 bytes (2.4 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 2.4 Mb

* Installing *source* package ‘geosphere’ ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
  in the method signature for function "areaPolygon" no definition for
class: “SpatialPolygons”
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
  in the method signature for function "centroid" no definition for
class: “SpatialPolygons”
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
  in the method signature for function "perimeter" no definition for
class: “SpatialPolygons”
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
  in the method signature for function "perimeter" no definition for
class: “SpatialLines”
Warning in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) :
  in the method signature for function "span" no definition for class:
“SpatialPolygons”
** help
*** installing help indices
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'geosphere'
     Formats: text html latex example
  alongTrackDistance                text    html    latex   example
  antipode                          text    html    latex   example
  area                              text    html    latex   example
  bearing                           text    html    latex   example
  bearingRhumb                      text    html    latex   example
  centroid                          text    html    latex   example
  data                              text    html    latex
  daylength                         text    html    latex   example
  destPoint                         text    html    latex   example
  destPointRhumb                    text    html    latex   example
  dist2gc                           text    html    latex   example
  dist2line                         text    html    latex   example
  distCosine                        text    html    latex   example
  distHaversine                     text    html    latex   example
Error in file 'distMeeus.Rd':
  \tab this-is-escaped-codenormal-bracket17bracket-normal \tab
this-is-escaped-codenormal-bracket18bracket-normal \tab
this-is-escaped-codenormal-bracket19bracket-normal \cr
does not fit tabular format {rllll}
ERROR: building help failed for package ‘geosphere’
* Removing ‘/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9/geosphere’

The downloaded packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpXDFCAs/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("geosphere") :
  installation of package 'geosphere' had non-zero exit status

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Dr Gavan McGrath
School of Earth and Environment
The University of Western Australia, M087
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