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rgdal, regeos, maptools retirement: a world vanishing

2 messages · Patrick Giraudoux, Roger Bivand

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Patrick Giraudoux
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Dear Roger,

I had missed your message about rgdal, rgeos, maptools and your 
retirement...? As being retired since 2 years, and emeritus as yourself, 
I can tell you how free an "emeritus" can be when rid of all forms of 
bureaucracies, competition for grants and institutional top-down 
injunctions. To tell you the truth I never had before a so deep feeling 
of being free to do the job for which I was paid for than since I am 
retired/emeritus.

I want to warmly thank you for all the work done since decades (speaking 
in the name of many in our lab). I remember our correspondence when I 
was back from field work in China, in the early 2000, when I was asking 
you how graphics could help and handle shapes and mapping... and I still 
have the first edition of Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R with your 
signing mentioning those early times. Of course thenafter, rgal, rgeos 
and maptools have been instrumental for most of my papers in ecology and 
epidemiology.

For sure, we will be a bit lost (and a bit scared not to find equivalent 
facilities) in rewriting a large number of scripts with other 
libraries... ?

Anyway, I wish you all the best for your new life, and hope our paths 
will anyway cross from time to time...

Cheers,

Patrick


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*Patrick GIRAUDOUX*
Professor emeritus of ecology
Honorary member of the /Institut universitaire de France/
Distinguished professor of the Yunnan University
of Finance and Economics, China
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1 day later
Roger Bivand
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Dear Patrick,
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Indeed, this is unexpected freedom ...

            

      
      
      
    

        
As you know, your postcard from China was a great encouragement!

            

      
      
      
    

        
Hopefully, sp will continue, and some functionality for vector data may be 
placed in sp. We can also extend or edit

https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/wiki/Migrating

when more becomes clearer for raster data.

            

      
      
      
    

        
That would be excellent!

Best wishes,

Roger