[R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates?

[Chris Reudenbach]

Many of us rely on the raster package as a crucial basis for their work. 
Big thank to Robert.  Nevertheless to contribute needs to focus needs 
and ressources.  Maybe an information exchange/discussion with Robert 
about options such as if/how the interested community can support would 
be more productive.

cheers Chris

Am 21.10.2017 um 06:52 schrieb Roger Bivand:
> The CRAN raster package has not been abandoned, if it had, it would have been reclassified as orphaned. Its test results have notes but no warnings or errors. It would be orphaned if the maintainer did not respond to CRAN requests to resolve test errors. Consequently, you are suggesting a fork, and should rename any package. Only the maintainer may update existing CRAN packages. I would not think that forking an existing CRAN package is the most productive way of contributing to the community. The package has many reverse dependencies, so setting up a test framework to find backwards incompatibilities would be crucial.
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> Of course, all contributions are welcome.
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> Roger
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> Roger Bivand
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> Fra: Michael Sumner
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> Great! I'm keen, but haven't done the work needed to flesh this out properly: https://github.com/mdsumner/raster-rforge/issues I have not checked if there's been any commits to r-forge since I cloned this. Cheers, Mike On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 12:58 Hodgess, Erin, wrote: > I could take a swat at it, if you wish. Please do send me the list of > fixes. I could start in about a week, if that would work. > Sincerely, > Erin > > > Erin M. Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu > > ________________________________________ > From: R-sig-Geo on behalf of Michael > Sumner > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:05 PM > To: Thiago V. dos Santos > Cc: R-sig-geo Mailing List > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates? > > No, it's effectively abandoned. No concrete plans known. > > I'm interested to keep it going and have kept a list of fixes needed, but > not sure when or if I'll get to it. > > I'd support any efforts in this, I'll rely on raster for many years still. > > Cheers, Mike > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 02:05 Thiago V. dos Santos via R-sig-Geo, < > r-sig-geo at r-project.org> wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > I realized that the latest version of the raster package was released on > > CRAN over a year ago. > > > > I also noticed that Robert's participation in this list has become rather > > scarce. > > > > I was just wondering whether the raster package is still receiving > updates? > > > > Greetings, > > -- Thiago V. dos Santos > > > > Postdoctoral Research Fellow > > Department of Climate and Space Science and Engineering > > University of Michigan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Geo mailing list > > R-sig-Geo at r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > -- > Dr. Michael Sumner > Software and Database Engineer > Australian Antarctic Division > 203 Channel Highway > Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ____
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