Checking for interest in taking over the development of the seg package

On 16/01/2025 22:17, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya wrote:

Dear professor Pebesma,
Thank you for responding to my request. I don't know how to reach

Seong-yun

  outside of github and his email. I hope that he sees this thread and

lets

us know if he agrees with us taking over maintenance or if he has other
wishes.

I see your PR on GH but I don't seem to have write access to merge it.

What

would be the correct way of continue the work? Could we work from a
forked repo?

Yes; the code is GPL so that is allowed.

If someone different from the current maintainer would want to submit it
to CRAN then they should give the package a different name; see
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

Kind regards
Guilherme

2025?1?16?(?) 9:55 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>:

Dear Guilherme, I made a minimal PR here:

https://github.com/syunhong/seg/pull/3

which makes the package pass R CMD check again; it needs some more work
to clean examples. I'd be willing to help with the sp -> sf transition.

The maintainer (Cc:) seems unresponsive on GH, how do you want to deal
with that? Maybe give them a call?

Many regards,

On 15/01/2025 16:43, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya wrote:

Hi all
The seg package, that implements spatial segregation measures of

various

kinds has been abandoned by its previous developer and kicked out from

CRAN

for not passing its tests. Worse yet, other packages that implemented

the

same segregation indices (like OasisR) depend on seg.

The previous maintainer does not respond anymore to the issue threads

on

github and Roger Bivand suggested to me that I ask here if anyone is
interested in taking over the maintenance.

The main issue with the package is that it relied on spgrass6. That has
been fixed since then by the former maintainer but it still doesn't

pass

the checks at CRAN. It also looks like it could use changing

documentation

to Roxygen and finalizing its transition from using sp to using sf

objects.

I am up to helping out with these tasks but my R skills are not the

most

advanced, and would prefer to do it with someone more knowledgeable. Is
there anybody interested in joining me for that?

Cheers
Guilherme Chihaya

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Phone: +49 251 8333081