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

[G. Allegri]

Thanks Edzer,
I've prefered to install all these packages just in case... :-)

2007/10/31, Edzer J. Pebesma <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>:
> 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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