[R-sig-Geo] rpostgis announcement

[Edzer Pebesma]

Nice development!

In the simple features for R project, https://github.com/edzer/sfr , I
have been writing direct (E)WKB <--> R conversions, and support reading
tables with geometry from PostGIS, using sf::st_read_pg(db, table). I
was thinking about how to do the writing when your package came!

The advantage of the sf package, over sp, is that it supports (will
support) all 17 geometry types for 4 dimensions (XY, XYZ, XYM, XYZM).

In order to try to gain momentum for this, could you provide a few
arguments and/or use cases for which this approach is more useful than
readOGR/writeOGR in rgdal?

Best regards,

On 29/08/16 16:48, David Bucklin wrote:
> Dear r-sig-geo list members,
> 
> We'd like to announce the initial CRAN release of 'rpostgis' (v1.0.0),
> which facilitates transfer between PostGIS "Geometry" objects (stored in
> PostgreSQL databases) and R spatial objects. The package also contains a
> variety of convenience functions which are supplemental to the excellent
> 'RPostgreSQL' package for interfacing with a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.
> 
> To install the package:
> 
> install.packages("rpostgis")
> 
> The package main development area can be found on GitHub; any bugs, issues,
> or feature requests can be submitted through the "issues" page there:
> 
> https://github.com/mablab/rpostgis

I did!

> 
> David
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Edzer Pebesma
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