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

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Gilles Benjamin Leduc wrote:

> 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…

Thanks for responding - every user data point helps!

Could you please provide the output of sessionInfo(), and any error 
messages you see on trying to update?

Roger

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> Benjamin
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> Le Vendredi 8 Juin 2018 18:15 GMT, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> a écrit:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> compiled code in these packages into rchk compliance.
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>> Please get in touch if you see any loose ends in these releases.
>>
>> Roger
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Roger Bivand
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