[R-sig-Geo] spdep 0.7-4 on CRAN

[Roger Bivand]

A new version of spdep is now on CRAN. This version has off-loaded most of 
the built-in data sets to the spData package, version >= 0.2.6.0 
(currently at 0.2.6.4 on CRAN), and switched the reading of vector 
data files from the deprecated maptools::readShapeSpatial() to 
rgdal::readOGR().

Further, a new vignette shows how nb - neighbour - objects can be created 
from sf objects:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spdep/vignettes/nb_sf.html

and consequently that tests for spatial autocoorelation and spatial 
regression models can be used with sf objects once the neighbours and 
spatial weights have been created.

Finally, the development repository for spdep has migrated to github:

https://github.com/r-spatial/spdep/

Please let me know if there are negative outcomes of these changes.

Roger

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