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

[Edzer Pebesma]

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sp_1.0-13, now on CRAN, should work with R >= 2.14 again.

On 09/05/2013 01:28 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> I only had to manually install sp_1.0-11.tar.gz After that
> install.packages worked fine using web sources for rgdal and 
> raster. I did not try rgeos or maptools.
> 
> Wonder why you had to manually do all of those.
> 
> Thanks, Alex
> 
> On 09/04/2013 03:48 PM, Michael Sumner wrote:
>> 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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