Is the raster package still receiving updates?

Dear Edzer,

As a heavy user of both raster and sp (for remote sensing products and
climate model outputs), I am really interested in the outcomes of your
meeting with Robert and Etienne.

I was just wondering: eould it be possible/convenient at this point for
you to share them with us?

Thanks!

?-- Thiago V. dos Santos

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Climate and Space Science and Engineering
University of Michigan


On Saturday, October 21, 2017, 5:32:59 AM EDT, Edzer Pebesma
<edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:


The the NOTEs on CRAN and the issues raised on Mike's raster-rforge GH
repo to me suggest that raster has, for a while now, reached a mature
state. Of course, you'd wish that raster development, in terms of
extending its power and features, would continue the pace it did 10
years ago, but that's a different issue. Mike has write access to the
raster r-forge sources, it shouldn't be hard to support Robert with
current issues.

Right after rstudio::conf (Feb 4/5) I'm meeting with Robert Hijmans and
Etienne Racine, to discuss, and work on raster future and integration of
rasters and stars. Anyone interested, feel free to join.

Stars has the ambition to jump over raster, in the sense that it doesn't
want to have the local hard drive as a limitation. That calls for
rethinking quite a few things. So far, things are still all in main
memory but it already integrates with sf:

https://gist.github.com/edzer/381dac079ddcd5174be31209675b3822

and handles time stacks of different attributes in single objects. Feed
back welcome as always; will write up the first blog in a few weeks.


On 10/21/2017 10:41 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:

Yes, this sounds fruitful. For now, I suggest that those wishing to

enhance raster do so in an additional package enhancing raster and
depending on it. Immediately, we should help Robert resolve the notes in
the tests, they do not affect functionality now, but deserve attention
to bring the package into full CRAN compliance. I can help with this.

Roger

Roger Bivand
Norwegian School of Economics
Bergen, Norway



Fra: Chris Reudenbach
Sendt: l?rdag 21. oktober, 09.01
Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates?
Til: r-sig-geo at r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-geo at r-project.org>


Many of us rely on the raster package as a crucial basis for their

work. Big thank to Robert.? Nevertheless to contribute needs to focus
needs and ressources.? Maybe an information exchange/discussion with
Robert about options such as if/how the interested community can support
would be more productive. cheers Chris Am 21.10.2017 um 06:52 schrieb
Roger Bivand: > The CRAN raster package has not been abandoned, if it
had, it would have been reclassified as orphaned. Its test results have
notes but no warnings or errors. It would be orphaned if the maintainer
did not respond to CRAN requests to resolve test errors. Consequently,
you are suggesting a fork, and should rename any package. Only the
maintainer may update existing CRAN packages. I would not think that
forking an existing CRAN package is the most productive way of
contributing to the community. The package has many reverse
dependencies, so setting up a test framework to find backwards
incompatibilities would be crucial. > > Of course, all contributions are
welcome. > > Roger > > Roger Bivand > Norwegian School of Economics >
Bergen, Norway > > > > Fra: Michael Sumner > Sendt: l?rdag 21. oktober,
06.28 > Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving
updates? > Til: Hodgess, Erin > Kopi: R-sig-geo Mailing List > > >
Great! I'm keen, but haven't done the work needed to flesh this out
properly: https://github.com/mdsumner/raster-rforge/issues I have not
checked if there's been any commits to r-forge since I cloned this.
Cheers, Mike On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 12:58 Hodgess, Erin, wrote: > I could
take a swat at it, if you wish. Please do send me the list of > fixes. I
could start in about a week, if that would work. > Sincerely, > Erin > >

Erin M. Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics and

Statistics > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
<mailto:hodgesse at uhd.edu> > > ________________________________________ >
From: R-sig-Geo on behalf of Michael > Sumner > Sent: Friday, October
20, 2017 8:05 PM > To: Thiago V. dos Santos > Cc: R-sig-geo Mailing List

Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving

updates? > > No, it's effectively abandoned. No concrete plans known. >

I'm interested to keep it going and have kept a list of fixes needed,

but > not sure when or if I'll get to it. > > I'd support any efforts in
this, I'll rely on raster for many years still. > > Cheers, Mike > > On
Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 02:05 Thiago V. dos Santos via R-sig-Geo, < >
r-sig-geo at r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-geo at r-project.org>> wrote: > > >
Dear list, > > > > I realized that the latest version of the raster
package was released on > > CRAN over a year ago. > > > > I also noticed
that Robert's participation in this list has become rather > > scarce. >

I was just wondering whether the raster package is still receiving

updates? > > > > Greetings, > > -- Thiago V. dos Santos > > > >

Postdoctoral Research Fellow > > Department of Climate and Space Science
and Engineering > > University of Michigan > > > >