[R-SIG-Mac] maptools in R 3.0.0

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 6, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Marc Girondot <marc_grt at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> I posted my question in R-help Mailing list but Brian Ripley answers that it was not the good place to ask for it.
> Since R 3.0.0, compiled version of maptools package is no more available as a binary in cran. Brian Ripley answers me that I must build it from source... ok. But how. That is my question.
> He gives me the trick that rgeos must be installed first:
> I do it from http://r.research.att.com/libs/
> 
> Then how to build maptools package ? I am lost.
> 

You don't need to - the binary is on CRAN, just use
install.packages("maptools")

Cheers,
Simon



> Thanks a lot.
> Marc
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