[R] About spDataLarge Package

[David Winsemius]

On 8/29/22 09:30, Paul Bernal wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I have just installed R version 4.2.1 for Windows on my machine, and was
> trying to install package spDataLarge, but the console threw the following
> error message:
>
> Warning in install.packages :
>    package 'spDataLarge' is not available for this version of R
>
> A version of this package for your version of R might be available
> elsewhere,
> see the ideas at
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages
>
> I used the following command to try to install it:
>
> install.packages("spDataLarge", repos = "https://nowosad.github.io/drat/",
> type = "source")


I'm on a Linux box and I get no difficulty using:

install.packages("spDataLarge",repos  =  "https://nowosad.github.io/drat/",type  =  "source")

That was the third of three options on its webpage at:

https://github.com/Nowosad/spDataLarge


There is an "issue" from Roger Bivand regarding the need for 
type="source: https://github.com/Nowosad/spDataLarge/issues/24

It would seem that `type="source"` might be superfluous since the 
package does not require compilation. At any rate there are two other 
options at that page and you might want to investigate them.


-- 

David.

> I tried with earlier versions of R (4.2.0 and 4.0.3) but I keep getting the
> same error. I was searching to see if I could obtain information regarding
> the R version or versions that support this package, but haven't found
> anything thus far.
>
> Any suggestions on how to successfully install this package?
>
> Something odd is that I was able to install package spData, but not
> spDataLarge (in R version 4.2.1)
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
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