Apolgies folks, Apparently some 'smart quotes' snuck their way into my email in the command for installing geomorph (pesky auto-correct of my email browser).
If anyone is having problems installing geomorph from the line of code I sent, please switch the smart quotes "" out for standard "" , as devtools does not recognize the former. Dean Dr. Dean C. Adams Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Iowa State University https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/dcadams/ phone: 515-294-3834 From: Adams, Dean [EEOB] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2024 11:24 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: updates to geomorph and RRPP Dear Colleagues, We wish to alert you about important updates to geomorph and RRPP. We have submitted new package versions to CRAN (geomorph 4.0.8 and RRPP 2.0.3), which are already available on Github. (It might take a few days before packages are fully available on CRAN, so installing packages via Github is a good idea.) These new package versions require R >= 4.4.0, which could mean that you will need to update your version of R to install the packages. We also recommend this because one of the package dependencies (Matrix) also requires R >= 4.4.0, and we have found that an older version of this package can produce bad results with some geomorph and RRPP functions, rather than errors. Therefore, we recommend assuring that your package version of Matrix is 1.7.0, along with updating R. There are no functional changes associated with these updates. These updates merely accommodate the R and Matrix updates, and improve computational proficiency for RRPP analyses. There is one new function in the RRPP package (QRforX), which is intended for internal use (to guarantee consistency despite differences in QR decompositions made for dense and sparse model design matrices). This should improve some analyses (especially using bilat.symmetry or gm.measurement.error) by taking advantage of sparse-matrix algebra. You can install new packages from Github with the devtools library via: devtools::install_github("mlcollyer/RRPP", build_vignettes = TRUE) devtools::install_github("geomorphR/geomorph", ref = "Stable", build_vignettes = TRUE) There might be some advantage to using the R package, pak, e.g., pak::pkg_install("mlcollyer/RRPP",...) where ... means "other arguments". The pak library might be able to figure out all other packages that need to be updated, whether from CRAN or Github repositories. However, it might not automatically install vignettes. Best wishes! Dean and the geomorph Team Dr. Dean C. Adams Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Iowa State University https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/dcadams/ phone: 515-294-3834 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/CO6PR04MB8427D9D084BA47BEDBE54982A2D42%40CO6PR04MB8427.namprd04.prod.outlook.com.
