Is the raster package still receiving updates?

Here's what I think should happen:

Robert Hijmans lets us know what his vision of raster is, and how he plans
to support it.

He should say if he wishes to carry on as maintainer or not. If not, we
need a new maintainer and then we can think about moving development to
gitlab, or whatever.

Barry





On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Alexander Brown <a.brown at ieee.org> wrote:

I too expect to rely on the raster package for years, and would be willing
to help to the extent of my ability and resources.

Alex Brown (a.brown at ieee.org)
http://faculty.uml.edu/abrown  -->
https://sites.google.com/site/alexbrownuml


On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Vijay Lulla <vijaylulla at gmail.com>
wrote:

Just like Mike I too will rely on raster for many years still and I will

be

very happy to support efforts on this or whatever else the community
leaders (Edzer, Roger, and others) decide is the best way for us to move
forward.

Thanks,
Vijay.

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 5:32 AM, 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


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 > >

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> 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? > > > >

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