[R-pkg-team] Bug#939002: Problem in test suite of sf since upgrade of proj

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>

Hi Edzer,

since the upgrade to proj (6.1.1-1) the autopkgtest for sf fails:

$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 R --no-save < testthat.R 

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> library(testthat)
> suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(sf))
> 
> test_check("sf")
proj_create: Error -5: unknown projection id
proj_create: Error -9: unknown elliptical parameter name
proj_create: init=epsg:/init=IGNF: syntax not supported in non-PROJ4 emulation mode
proj_create: init=epsg:/init=IGNF: syntax not supported in non-PROJ4 emulation mode
proj_create: init=epsg:/init=IGNF: syntax not supported in non-PROJ4 emulation mode
── 1. Error: $.crs works (@test_crs.R#49)  ─────────────────────────────────────
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
1: expect_true(is.numeric(st_crs("+init=epsg:3857 +units=m")$b)) at testthat/test_crs.R:49
2: quasi_label(enquo(object), label, arg = "object")
3: eval_bare(get_expr(quo), get_env(quo))
4: st_crs("+init=epsg:3857 +units=m")
5: st_crs.character("+init=epsg:3857 +units=m")
6: make_crs(x)

proj_create: init=epsg:/init=IGNF: syntax not supported in non-PROJ4 emulation mode
── 2. Error: $.crs works 2 (@test_crs.R#55)  ───────────────────────────────────
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
1: expect_true(is.numeric(st_crs("+init=epsg:3857 +units=km")$b)) at testthat/test_crs.R:55
2: quasi_label(enquo(object), label, arg = "object")
3: eval_bare(get_expr(quo), get_env(quo))
4: st_crs("+init=epsg:3857 +units=km")
5: st_crs.character("+init=epsg:3857 +units=km")
6: make_crs(x)

Cannot open layer foo
Reading layer `nospatial' from data source `/usr/lib/R/site-library/sf/gpkg/nospatial.gpkg' using driver `GP
Reading layer `nospatial' from data source `/usr/lib/R/site-library/sf/gpkg/nospatial.gpkg' using driver `GP
OGR: Unsupported geometry type
Reading layer `nc' from data source `/usr/lib/R/site-library/sf/shape/nc.shp' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
Simple feature collection with 100 features and 14 fields
geometry type:  MULTIPOLYGON
dimension:      XY
bbox:           xmin: -84.32385 ymin: 33.88199 xmax: -75.45698 ymax: 36.58965
epsg (SRID):    4267
proj4string:    +proj=longlat +datum=NAD27 +no_defs
driver `foo' not available.
Dataset /tmp/RtmpTlApgW/file1ffa3ef15a25.gpkg already exists: remove first, use update=TRUE to append,
delete_layer=TRUE to delete layer, or delete_dsn=TRUE to remove the entire data source before writing.
Creating layer . failed.
Failed to create feature 1 in x
Failed to create feature 1 in x
Failed to create feature 1 in x
══ testthat results  ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
[ OK: 658 | SKIPPED: 59 | WARNINGS: 6 | FAILED: 2 ]
1. Error: $.crs works (@test_crs.R#49) 
2. Error: $.crs works 2 (@test_crs.R#55) 

Error: testthat unit tests failed
Execution halted


Could you try to port sf to the recent version of proj?

Kind regards

      Andreas.


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