[R-sig-Geo] mapview 2.0.1 on CRAN

[Tim Appelhans]

Dear list,

we have released mapview version 2.0.1 to CRAN yesterday. Windows 
binaries have already been built and MacOSX binaries should follow soon.

As indicated by the major version bump, this release entails a few major 
changes. The two most user-relevant changes are:

1. All vector data processing internally is now done using the simple 
features package. Apart from providing full support for the most common 
sf types this also means that mapview now returns data of class sf/sfc 
even when passing a sp object to mapview. I am unsure whether anyone 
ever uses the @object slot of mapview but in case people do, this is a 
major change.

2. The github repository has been move from 
environmentalinformatics-marburg to 
https://github.com/r-spatial/mapview. So to install the develop version 
use devtools::install_github("r-spatial/mapview at develop")

3. There are new vector data sets (breweries, trails, franconia). The 
old data sets (breweries91, gadmCHE, astStorms2005) have been moved to 
library(leaflet). Thus, examples using the old data hopefully should 
still work.

All changes are outlined here (still listed as as version 1.2.79)

https://r-spatial.github.io/mapview/news/index.html

We also have a new online documentation which can be found here

https://r-spatial.github.io/mapview/

As always, feedback, suggestions, feature requests and bug reports 
should be filed at https://github.com/r-spatial/mapview/issues

Happy mapping,
Tim

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Tim Appelhans
Research Specialist, Geomarketing
GfK | Bamberger Str. 6, 90425 Nürnberg | Germany
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