maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16
Dear Dr. Roger Bivand: I echo this comment and sentiment. Dr. Roger Bivand is not only a great scholar and generous contributor, maintainer to the R-spatial task force, but also a fantastic mentor to us all. No amount of "thank you" would be sufficient. Best, Danlin
On 10/3/2023 5:22 AM, Gilberto Camara wrote:
Dear Roger Your enormous and generous dedication to R-spatial is amazing and a model to all of us!! Many, many thanks! All the best Gilberto ============================ Prof Dr Gilberto Camara Senior Researcher National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil https://gilbertocamara.org/ =============================
On 3 Oct 2023, at 10:15, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote: The legacy R spatial infrastructure packages maptools, rgdal and rgeos will be archived by CRAN on Monday, October 16, 2023; rgrass7 has already been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring packages. The choice of date matches the previously announced archiving during October 2023, and the specific date matches the release schedule of Bioconductor 3.18 (some Bioconductor packages depend on retiring packages). sp_2.1-0 was published October 2, 2023, dropping all dependencies on the retiring packages. sp will continue to be available and maintained, but not developed further. Users of sp classes may continue to make use of them, but will have to use sf or terra to read, write or manipulate objects with coercion (for a guide to coercion, see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgrass/vignettes/coerce.html). Information about the evolution project may be found in reports and resources at https://r-spatial.github.io/evolution/; a recent blog by Jakub Nowosad may also be useful as an overview of what has been going on: https://geocompx.org/post/2023/rgdal-retirement/. For more detail, see https://r-spatial.github.io/evolution/ogh23_bivand.html and a video recording of this presentation https://av.tib.eu/media/63141 (August 28). All directly affected package maintainers have been alerted to the impending changes, some in December 2022, most others in March-April 2023. Many have already updated their packages on CRAN - thank you for your understanding! The remainder received github issue comments and email reminders in the last ten days, and will receive final notices to update by October 9. On R-universe, builds of packages archived on CRAN are dropped automatically (https://github.com/r-universe-org/help/issues/286). Read-only github mirrors of archived packages will remain available in principle while github exists (https://github.com/r-hub/rhub/issues/568), for example https://github.com/cran/rgdal. Other binary builds (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) have been alerted; support at Anaconda has been alerted. On CRAN, the retired packages will continue to be available as source packages on https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive. maptools, rgdal and rgeos also retain their R-forge repositories, which may be used to retrieve functions for adding to other packages. A snapshot of Windows and macOS binary packages may be found on https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution/tree/main/backstore. Please raise questions by replying to this post, or as issues on https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution. -- Roger Bivand Emeritus Professor Norwegian School of Economics Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
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