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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