[STATSGRASS] problems with installing maptools package (due to Foreign package)

[Edzer J. Pebesma]

Giovani, package gstat is formally only dependent on sp, according to
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/gstat.html
(rgdal and fields are only needed to run the regression tests)

Of course you may need maptools and rgdal to do all kinds of stuff...
--
Edzer

G. Allegri wrote:
> I'm configuring my new debian lenny, and as I was installing R and the
> related spatial packages I've faced some problems with maptools
> package setup.
> I've installed R via apt, from the debian official repositories. The R
> versione installed is 2.5.1.
> Then I've run the usual commands:
>
> install.packages(c("sp", "maptools", "rgdal"), dependencies=TRUE).
> (Are these packages still enough for gstat?)
>
> Everything seems to have gone ok for sp and rgdal (having previously
> "apt-get-installed" libgdal1-dev and the other 27 Mb of
> dependencies!!!)
> The problem has come with maptools setup which har raised an error
> when trying to load "foreign" package for lazy loading. The exit error
> said
>
> "This is R 2.5.1, package 'foreing' needs >= 2.6.0"
>
> What should I do? It seems there's an inconcistency between the
> packaged versions, but I can I upgrade to 2.6 *without* compiling it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giovanni
>
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