[GRASS-stats] rgdal for R 2.7?

[Hamish]

Hi,

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

as the GRASS/R docs seem in need of some consolidation and updating.


I get as far as installing the rgdal package, which complains that it is
not available.

The package page shows that it wants R >= 2.10.0
   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html

I'd like to try and keep the official 2.7 R package if at all possible.
(I'm a guest on this machine)


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/


Is there any way to tell which is the most modern one of those that
will still work with R 2.7.1?  (faster than download, inspect, repeat,..)

Is there a way to specify version with install.packages(type="source")
or do I have to do this by hand?


Standard GDAL 1.5.2 packages are installed on the system. (incl. the
gdal-grass plugin)


?

thanks,
Hamish