Is the raster package still receiving updates?

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.

Is the raster package still receiving updates?

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