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

[Edzer Pebesma]

Could you please detail in which respect you believe they are orphaned,
right now, and what kind of love they should receive?

On 12/16/2012 07:16 PM, Chris English wrote:
> 
> Well, I hope something is done with Spatial Lines that seem strangely like orphans
> while Spatial Points, Spatial Polygons, Spatial Grids and Spatial Pixels get all the love.
>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:13:07 +0000
>> From: b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
>> To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] R 3.0.0 and spatial classes
>>
>> 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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