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

Thu Feb 15 16:11:26 CET 2018

On 02/15/2018 03:33 PM, Thiago V. dos Santos wrote:
> Dear Edzer,
> 
> As a heavy user of both raster and sp (for remote sensing products and
> climate model outputs), I am really interested in the outcomes of your
> meeting with Robert and Etienne.
> 
> I was just wondering: eould it be possible/convenient at this point for
> you to share them with us?
> 

The meeting took place, as I reported here:
https://twitter.com/edzerpebesma/status/960376392247476227

My agenda is pretty much on-line, and otherwise found in my two R talks
of last week(s): https://github.com/edzer/rstudio_conf ; the talk at
Bren School @ UCSB gives more details (and some results) for stars.

The Bren talk was recorded, and I put it here:
http://pebesma.staff.ifgi.de/Spatial-data-in-R--Pebesma--2018-02-07.m4v

The RStudio::conf talk was recorded too, and should become available in
a few weeks.

Whenever there's something substantial to tell about stars, I'll report
back here (and/or on twitter), anything about raster you'll have to ask
Robert.

Many regards,

> Thanks!
> 
>  -- Thiago V. dos Santos
> 
> Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> Department of Climate and Space Science and Engineering
> University of Michigan
> 
> 
> On Saturday, October 21, 2017, 5:32:59 AM EDT, 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 <mailto: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
> <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 <mailto: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 > > > >
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