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

[Edzer Pebesma]

The the NOTEs on CRAN and the issues raised on Mike's raster-rforge GH
repo to me suggest that raster has, for a while now, reached a mature
state. Of course, you'd wish that raster development, in terms of
extending its power and features, would continue the pace it did 10
years ago, but that's a different issue. Mike has write access to the
raster r-forge sources, it shouldn't be hard to support Robert with
current issues.

Right after rstudio::conf (Feb 4/5) I'm meeting with Robert Hijmans and
Etienne Racine, to discuss, and work on raster future and integration of
rasters and stars. Anyone interested, feel free to join.

Stars has the ambition to jump over raster, in the sense that it doesn't
want to have the local hard drive as a limitation. That calls for
rethinking quite a few things. So far, things are still all in main
memory but it already integrates with sf:

https://gist.github.com/edzer/381dac079ddcd5174be31209675b3822

and handles time stacks of different attributes in single objects. Feed
back welcome as always; will write up the first blog in a few weeks.


On 10/21/2017 10:41 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:
> Yes, this sounds fruitful. For now, I suggest that those wishing to enhance raster do so in an additional package enhancing raster and depending on it. Immediately, we should help Robert resolve the notes in the tests, they do not affect functionality now, but deserve attention to bring the package into full CRAN compliance. I can help with this.
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> Fra: Chris Reudenbach
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> Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates?
> Til: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
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> 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. > > Of course, all contributions are welcome. > > Roger > > Roger Bivand > Norwegian School of Economics > Bergen, Norway > > > > Fra: Michael Sumner > Sendt: lørdag 21. oktober, 06.28 > Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates? > Til: Hodgess, Erin > Kopi: R-sig-geo Mailing List > > > 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]] > > ____ > ___________________________________________ > 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]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Dr Christoph Reudenbach, Philipps-University of Marburg, Faculty of Geography, GIS and Environmental Modeling, Deutschhausstr. 10, D-35032 Marburg, fon: ++49.(0)6421.2824296, fax: ++49.(0)6421.2828950, web: gis-ma.org, giswerk.org, moc.environmentalinformatics-marburg.de _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
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