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Update to versions GEOS 3.8.0, GDAL 3.0.4 and PROJ 7.0.0 in macOS Catalina

6 messages · Simon Urbanek, Ken Beath, Manuel Spínola

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Dear list members,

Sorry for crossposting.  I sent this message to the r-sig-geo but
apparently no many people know how to do this in MacOS.  I am working with
R 4.0.0 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4

I am working with spatial package that to have full functionality depend on
updated versions of:

GEOS 3.8.0, GDAL 3.0.4 and PROJ 7.0.0

Best,

Manuel
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Manuel,

see
https://github.com/R-macos/recipes <https://github.com/R-macos/recipes>
you can update the recipes to use the required versions to build a setup that works for your package. Once you do you can issue a pull request so we can update CRAN accordingly.

Please note that it is generally not a good idea to require latests versions as that excludes a large number of users from using your package. Many user don't have control over dependent libraries and must use supported versions. The mainstream LTS versions right now are geos 3.6.2, gdal 2.2.3 and proj 4.9.3 and latest non-LTS are geos 3.7.1, gdal 2.4.0 and proj 5.2.0 which is pretty much the maximum you can realistically require.

Cheers,
Simon

  
  
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Thank you very much Simon.

I don't know much about programming so I will keep the current versions.

I was asking because some of the main spatial packages, as sf and terra, I
think require the latest versions of gdal and proj to be completely
functional. That is my understanding, may be I am wrong.

Best,

Manuel


El vie., 22 may. 2020 a las 16:56, Simon Urbanek (<
simon.urbanek at r-project.org>) escribi?:

  
    
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sf requires GDAL (>= 2.0.1), GEOS (>= 3.4.0), PROJ (>= 4.8.0) so I would assume that its full functionality is available with these.

Ken

  
  
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Thank you very much Ken.  You are right.

I think the developers of those packages are working with those updated
versions.

Manuel


El vie., 22 may. 2020 a las 18:49, Ken Beath (<ken at kjbeath.com.au>)
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For those interested,

Alberto L?zaro-L?pez sent me this link for OSGeo4Mac which use homebrew:

https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac


Manuel





El vie., 22 may. 2020 a las 19:45, Manuel Sp?nola (<mspinola10 at gmail.com>)
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