SP 1.0-12 install error

I only had to manually install sp_1.0-11.tar.gz After that
install.packages worked fine using web sources for rgdal and 
raster. I did not try rgeos or maptools.

Wonder why you had to manually do all of those.

Thanks, Alex

On 09/04/2013 03:48 PM, Michael Sumner wrote:

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