[Bioc-devel] Package submission deadline Bioconductor 3.18

[Roger Bivand]

I have posted here before to warn that three CRAN spatial infrastructure packages will be retired/archived in October 2023 [1]. It would be very helpful if Bioconductor 3.18 packages made no use at all of rgdal. rgeos or maptools, and that those using sp added sf as a suggested package if operations on coordinate reference systems are used. Is it possible to add blocks on the use of retiring packages to 3.18 checks?

Roger

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2023-June/019727.html

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