[R-sig-Geo] CRAN releases of sp, rgdal and rgeos

[Gilles Benjamin Leduc]

 Good monday! 

I tried to update rgdal, I get a warning telling me the installation had a non-null exit status. I haven't cheak if it was working… 

Benjamin 
 
 
Le Vendredi 8 Juin 2018 18:15 GMT, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> a écrit: 
 
> There are new releases of sp, rgdal and rgeos on CRAN. Please install sp 
> first, then the other two, which link to the installed sp. They all 

> address so-called rchk issues, which have not so far been a problem, but 
> might have become more fragile as R's internal memory management is made 
> even more efficient. This involves compiled code using memory allocated by 
> R to be freed by R's garbage collector, which has to know if an object is 
> still being used. Tomas Kalibera, the author of rchk, helped resolve and 
> explain the issues encountered - what was good coding practice fifteen 
> years ago isn't always still good practice.
> 
> In addition, the earliest versions of GDAL and PROJ with which rgdal will 
> work have been updated, and set to PROJ 4.8.0 and GDAL 1.11.4. The current 
> released versions of PROJ and GDAL are to be prefered, as bugs have been 
> fixed and new features and drivers introduced. A check has been put 

> in place to trap attempts to install rgdal without a C++11-capable 
> compiler when the GDAL version is >=2.3.0 - which requires C++11. rgeos is 
> ready for the forthcoming version of GEOS.
> 
> The CRAN team has also been very supportive of our efforts to bring 

> compiled code in these packages into rchk compliance.
> 
> Please get in touch if you see any loose ends in these releases.
> 
> Roger
> 
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