Package sf (for "simple features") is now on CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=sf
The package vignette is found here:
https://edzer.github.io/sfr/articles/sfr.html
A report on CRAN submission adventures is found here:
http://r-spatial.org/r/2016/11/02/sfcran.html
This doesn't mean that the package is finished, but I believe that it is
useful already. Much of the discussion related to functionality takes
place in github issues:
https://github.com/edzer/sfr/issues
and includes discussion of raster support, dplyr compatibility, and so
on. If you're curious, or want to participate in shaping this, please
participate; contributions on this mailing list are also welcome.
Kudos go to Jeroen Ooms for the Windows port, Roger Bivand for migrating
most of the CRAN build farm to GDAL 2.0, and of course the CRAN team
itself!
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Edzer Pebesma
Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of M?nster
Heisenbergstra?e 2, 48149 M?nster, Germany; +49 251 83 33081
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