SP 1.0-12 install error

I noticed this in an RStudio server instance, which was running R
2.15.3, I had to download each package .tar.gz and install
individually to avoid the 'unused argument(s) (slots = c(projargs =
"character"))' problem.

I seemed to need older versions of maptools, rgdal, rgeos, sp and
raster to get everything working there. It might be worth getting a
formal listing of this if many people are affected. This is what I
used, I just went back a few months in the archive, I was not careful
to check when the change was made:

 "maptools_0.8-24.tar.gz"
"raster_2.1-12.tar.gz"
"rgdal_0.8-7.tar.gz"
"rgeos_0.2-16.tar.gz"
"sp_1.0-8.tar.gz"

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

I ran into trouble because I needed to add Rgdal (someone had forgotten
to install it) to an existing 2.15 server and it wanted sp newer than
1.0 but I had 0.9.x. Upgrading this particular machine to 3 was too
risky and would involve verifying all the other running packages could
be upgraded.

For many of my machines I do track the CRAN debs for R updates but not
on deployed servers where an accidental upgrade could break R web
services that are running or long standing analysis code being used by
researchers.

So yes it would be good if I had gotten the warning in R or saw it in
some news or changelog somewhere. I don't think there's any particular
need to revert as long as people are aware of the issue and the way to
work around it.


Thanks,
Alex

On 09/04/2013 03:35 AM, Edzer Pebesma wrote:

Thanks, you are right, sp 1.0-12 depends on R 3.0.0 but claims it
doesn't.

Ubuntu users are very well served by binary updates of R releases, see
for instance http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

If the list considers this as an annoyance, let me know, it's not a
big deal to convert back to pre 3.0.0 syntax (for some time).

On 09/03/2013 09:40 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

I was getting an error today installing/upgrading sp.

Error in setClass("CRS", slots = c(projargs = "character"),
prototype = list(projargs = character(1)),  : unused argument(s)
(slots = c(projargs = "character")) Error : unable to load R code
in package ?sp? ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?sp?

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, using a different mirror, doing
it system-wide vs just for my user etc... Then I noticed that
1.0-12 was released only a few days ago, so I downloaded the
archived version of 1.0-11 and the install works.
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/sp/

R is 2.15.3 on Ubuntu 12.04

Is there a bug in the package or does the new sp require R>3?

Thanks, Alex