[R-sig-Geo] Help with gpclib

[hadley wickham]

>> That code is out of date. The current code is
>> https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/blob/master/R/fortify-spatial.r
>
> The released code is as quoted, which is what users see. I think github does
> not provide automatic check, build, and binary build of development versions
> of packages (like R-forge). So users cannot install from github without
> checking out the source code?

library(devtools)
install_github("ggplot2")

> Not "much easier", for all Windows and OSX users installing CRAN binary
> packages, there is now, thanks to Brian Ripley, Uwe Ligges, and Simon
> Urbanek, no difference at all. GEOS is available as a binary install for
> most popular Linux versions, from there a source install of rgeos is no
> harder than other source packages with external dependencies (like XML).

Ok, that's great, although I have to say I found the description on
CRAN rather confusing (it wasn't obvious whether or not you still need
an external package).

Hadley

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