On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Roger Bivand wrote: > A new release of spdep has been published on CRAN and will spread to a > mirror near you soon. It includes faster sparse matrix computation in > maximum likelihood model fitting, and code for exact global and local > Moran's I tests contributed by Markus Reder. > > Please note two issues: spdep now depends on the spam package (another > sparse matrix implementation), so that just updating spdep will not be > enough, and spam needs to be installed too, unless you already have it > (users of the fields package will probably have it if you update > regularly). > > The second issue is that the ade4 package is currently unable to load > spdep in functions that need this dependence, because of spdep's new > dependence on spam. We are working on this, and a suggested fix for spam > has been sent to its maintainer. So ade4 users who do not need extra spdep > functionality may choose not to update spdep until this issue has been > resolved.
The rapid release of spam_0.13-2 by Reinhard Furrer (many thanks!) has resolved the ade4 problem, so updating to the latest spdep is now OK also for ade4 users. Roger > > Please let me know of any difficulties, > > Happy New Year! > > Roger > > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
