[GRASS-stats] rgdal for R 2.7?

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Hamish wrote:

> Hamish:
>>> I am trying to get spgrass6 running on Debian/stable which ships
>>> with R 2.7.1, and clean up the GRASS/R wiki page while I'm at it:
>>>   http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/R
> ..
>>> I get as far as installing the rgdal package, which complains
> ..
>>> The package page shows that it wants R >= 2.10.0
> ..
>>> I see a bunch of old rgdal versions in the archive; according to the
>>> spgrass6 dependency listing anything newer than 0.6-7 (Feb-2009) should
>>> be ok.  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rgdal/
>
> Roger:
>> Check the dates for a version current when 2.7.1 was current and maybe
>> get  more recent. Do the same with sp if it complains - the most
>> recent one needs >= 2.9.1
>
> No, I just did install.packages("sp") and it did not complain.
> library("sp") works ok. shrug.

Yes, but instantiating a Polygons object will fail, for example in reading 
a shapefile.

>
>
>> Hope this helps,
>
> Yes, thanks. Actually I only had to go back one release to -24.
> Very easy:
>
> wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rgdal/rgdal_0.6-24.tar.gz
> R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/local/lib/R/site-library rgdal_0.6-24.tar.gz
>
> done!
>

OK, good!

Roger

>
>> PS. Debian policy is very odd, R is three stable releases
>> on from there,
>

I understand, but with the fine-grained nature of R contributed packages, 
their interdependencies, and frequent and rapid bugfixes, the "stable" 
policy may lock a server administrator into sub-optimal releases. I guess 
everyone gets to choose what suits them.

> note that is only Debian/*stable*. If you want modern stuff debian/testing
> and unstable both have R 2.10.  Debian/stable is for people who don't
> want to deal with bugs, everything is tested for a long long time before
> it is allowed in. Desktop users may groan, but people maintaining rock-
> solid low-maintenance servers couldn't be happier. In a general sense
> Debian's QA policies are so strict that even the unstable branch is more
> stable than most other distros I have used. And then you have Debian/
> experimental if you really want bleeding edge... it's just a matter of
> choosing your pain threshold. And of course there is backports.org and
> Ubuntu to play with if the above don't fit your needs.
>
> (fwiw GRASS in Debian/stable is @ 6.2.3 vs. 6.4.svn40k in /testing and
> /unstable)
>
>
> cheers,
> Hamish
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