[R-sig-Geo] CRAN Windows binaries: rgdal and rgeos

[Roger Bivand]

Thanks to the continuing support of Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges, the rgdal 
CRAN Windows binary package now static links to the GDAL 1.10.1 and PROJ.4 
4.8.0 libraries, and the rgeos binary package static links to GEOS 3.4.2. 
These are the latest releases, and should provide extra features and bug 
fixes. Note that EPSG projection definitions have also been updated, so 
please be aware that there may be changes from earlier versions, 
correcting earlier inaccuracies. To track changes in the versions of EPSG 
included, see the GDAL and PROJ.4 release notes for the versions you are 
running, for example:

NEWS <- "http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/trunk/proj/NEWS"
PROJ4_NEWS <- readLines(url(NEWS))
lns <- grep("Release Notes|EPSG", PROJ4_NEWS)
head(PROJ4_NEWS[lns])

NEWS <- "http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/export/26662/trunk/gdal/NEWS"
GDAL_NEWS <- readLines(url(NEWS))
lns <- grep("Release Notes|EPSG", GDAL_NEWS)
head(GDAL_NEWS[lns])


Roger

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