Mauro, Please re-read the news file. There was a documented change in version 2.1.6 with respect to how the scale was handled (which remains documented in subsequent updated versions). Please see the News file where this was mentioned, and the help file for digitize2d which explained the change. We of course are happy to receive any suggestions for improvements, and if any unforeseen issues arise as a result of new versions, we would like to know these as well.
As for inter-linked packages, geomorph depends on ape and rgl, and imports from geiger, phytools, jpeg, and several other packages. The issue you noted was an error in Phanghorn, which is called by phytools. Geopmorph does not use Biostrings, but since geomorph calls phytools, a cascading install error occurred. While unfortunate, I simply have no control over this. I have been in contact with the maintainers of both packages, and have alerted them to the problem. However, it will likely be some time until the corrected version of Phanghorn is on the main CRAN repository, since they have just uploaded new versions to CRAN. In the meantime, the workaround you mentioned of manually installing Biostrings is needed. Clearly this is not my preference, but I have no control of what others require in their packages. Dean Dr. Dean C. Adams Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department of Statistics Iowa State University www.public.iastate.edu/~dcadams/<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dcadams/> phone: 515-294-3834 From: Mauro Cavalcanti [mailto:mauro...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:27 PM To: MORPHMET <morphmet@morphometrics.org> Subject: [MORPHMET] Yet another sequel to complaints about 'geomorph' R package Dear members of the geomorph R package Development Team, I at least have been able to track down the "missing library" error when attempting to install even previous versions of geopmorph. It turns out that geomorph depends upon a package called 'phangorn' -- which has just been updated to make use of "Biostrings". At least one other R package (phytools) is also dependent upon phangorn Iand therefore upon Biostrings too). The fact that the Biostrings package has not been installed as a depedency of the latest phangorn is due to the fact that the Bioconductor Project (and associated packages) is not on CRAN. A big mess, indeed... Hope this helps! It seems that these complaints about geomorph are turning to become a series with many sequels as "Star Wars"... May the Force Be With You! ;-) -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti E-mail: mauro...@gmail.com<mailto:mauro...@gmail.com> Web: http://sites.google.com/site/maurobio -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org<mailto:morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org>. -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.