[R-sig-Geo] SP 1.0-12 install error

[Michael Sumner]

I noticed this in an RStudio server instance, which was running R
2.15.3, I had to download each package .tar.gz and install
individually to avoid the 'unused argument(s) (slots = c(projargs =
"character"))' problem.

I seemed to need older versions of maptools, rgdal, rgeos, sp and
raster to get everything working there. It might be worth getting a
formal listing of this if many people are affected. This is what I
used, I just went back a few months in the archive, I was not careful
to check when the change was made:

 "maptools_0.8-24.tar.gz"
"raster_2.1-12.tar.gz"
"rgdal_0.8-7.tar.gz"
"rgeos_0.2-16.tar.gz"
"sp_1.0-8.tar.gz"

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> I ran into trouble because I needed to add Rgdal (someone had forgotten
> to install it) to an existing 2.15 server and it wanted sp newer than
> 1.0 but I had 0.9.x. Upgrading this particular machine to 3 was too
> risky and would involve verifying all the other running packages could
> be upgraded.
>
> For many of my machines I do track the CRAN debs for R updates but not
> on deployed servers where an accidental upgrade could break R web
> services that are running or long standing analysis code being used by
> researchers.
>
> So yes it would be good if I had gotten the warning in R or saw it in
> some news or changelog somewhere. I don't think there's any particular
> need to revert as long as people are aware of the issue and the way to
> work around it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 09/04/2013 03:35 AM, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
>> Thanks, you are right, sp 1.0-12 depends on R 3.0.0 but claims it
>> doesn't.
>>
>> Ubuntu users are very well served by binary updates of R releases, see
>> for instance http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>>
>> If the list considers this as an annoyance, let me know, it's not a
>> big deal to convert back to pre 3.0.0 syntax (for some time).
>>
>> On 09/03/2013 09:40 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> I was getting an error today installing/upgrading sp.
>>
>>> Error in setClass("CRS", slots = c(projargs = "character"),
>>> prototype = list(projargs = character(1)),  : unused argument(s)
>>> (slots = c(projargs = "character")) Error : unable to load R code
>>> in package ‘sp’ ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘sp’
>>
>>> I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, using a different mirror, doing
>>> it system-wide vs just for my user etc... Then I noticed that
>>> 1.0-12 was released only a few days ago, so I downloaded the
>>> archived version of 1.0-11 and the install works.
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/sp/
>>
>>> R is 2.15.3 on Ubuntu 12.04
>>
>>> Is there a bug in the package or does the new sp require R>3?
>>
>>> Thanks, Alex
>>
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Michael Sumner
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