[Live-demo] 5.5 RC1 Status - missing R add-on packages

[Cameron Shorter]

Barry,
Alex commented out some R elements for the 5.0 release to save space. I 
suggest talking with him about options.

On 20/02/12 23:02, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>   just checking out the latest RC iso, and not all the spatial packages
> for R are included. The file:
>
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/app-conf/R/installRpackages.r
>
>   has a bunch of packages commented out in the line '#optional=....'
>
>   its possible these needed more space, or extra external dependencies,
> and so were commented out. I'd like to argue strongly for the
> inclusion of at least the rgeos package, since it does add GIS-y
> functionality (feature overlay and intersect and buffer and all that)
> to R.
>
>   Sorry to be a bit last-minute on this, I tried downloading an earlier
> ISO last week but by the time it had downloaded I had to go home...
>
> Barry


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