Dear SpaDES community,
There is an unresolved issue with the CRAN version of reproducible that is causing an error when running simInit() - if using modules that require spatial manipulation tools (e.g. raster functions).
However, this issue is resolved on the sideEffectAsPath branch of the GitHub reproducible repository. So re-installing reproducible from this branch seems to allow running simInit() and spades() smoothly:
devtools::install_github("PredictiveEcology/reproducible@sideEffectAsPath")
Cheers and happy SpaDESing :)
Ceres