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

Sat Oct 21 18:54:30 CEST 2017

Just like Mike I too will rely on raster for many years still and I will be
very happy to support efforts on this or whatever else the community
leaders (Edzer, Roger, and others) decide is the best way for us to move
forward.

Thanks,
Vijay.

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Edzer Pebesma <
edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > Roger Bivand
> > Norwegian School of Economics
> > Bergen, Norway
> >
> >
> >
> > Fra: Chris Reudenbach
> > Sendt: lørdag 21. oktober, 09.01
> > Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates?
> > Til: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> >
> >
> > 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 > >
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