[R-sig-Geo] R 3.0.0 and spatial classes

[Barry Rowlingson]

In the latest R-devel NEWS file:

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html



On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michael Sumner <mdsumner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where is the announcement?
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> On Sunday, December 16, 2012, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>>
>> There's been an announcement that the next version of R will be called
>> 3.0.0. Although not a massive change (compared to Python 2.x and 3.x,
>> or Perl 4 to Perl 5), it might be a good opportunity to revise all the
>> spatial classes in order to:
>>
>>  * clear out any cruft
>>  * remove any inconsistencies
>>  * add some new functionality
>>  * unify across spatial packages
>>
>> The first thing that springs to mind, for example, is getting sp and
>> raster to use the same functions for coordinate reference system
>> processing. Doubtless there are other opprtunities for synergy...
>>
>>  Yes, this may well break existing code, but if R is going to jump
>> from 2 to 3 then that will break existing code too.
>>
>>  Your ponderances, please...
>>
>> Barry
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