[R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

[Manuel Spínola]

I also echo all this comments.

Very grateful for Roger Bivand effort.

Manuel

On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 07:41 Sean Trende via R-sig-Geo <
r-sig-geo using r-project.org> wrote:

> Agreed 100%.  I'm blown away by the amount of work and care that you put
> into helping people use these packages. I never would have completed my
> dissertation without the willingness to respond thoughtfully to my
> obviously "noob" questions on this forum.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-sig-Geo <r-sig-geo-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Danlin Yu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 9:36 AM
> To: r-sig-geo using r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring
> Monday, October 16
>
> Dear Dr. Roger Bivand:
>
> I echo this comment and sentiment.
>
> Dr. Roger Bivand is not only a great scholar and generous contributor,
> maintainer to the R-spatial task force, but also a fantastic mentor to us
> all.
>
> No amount of "thank you" would be sufficient.
>
> Best,
>
> Danlin
>
> On 10/3/2023 5:22 AM, Gilberto Camara wrote:
> > Dear Roger
> >
> > Your enormous and generous dedication to R-spatial is amazing and a
> model to all of us!! Many, many thanks!
> >
> > All the best
> > Gilberto
> > ============================
> > Prof Dr Gilberto Camara
> > Senior Researcher
> > National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
> > https://gilbertocamara.org/ =============================
> >
> >
> >> On 3 Oct 2023, at 10:15, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> wrote:
> >>
> >> The legacy R spatial infrastructure packages maptools, rgdal and rgeos
> will be archived by CRAN on Monday, October 16, 2023; rgrass7 has  already
> been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring packages.
> >>
> >> The choice of date matches the previously announced archiving during
> October 2023, and the specific date matches the release schedule of
> Bioconductor 3.18 (some Bioconductor packages depend on retiring packages).
> >>
> >> sp_2.1-0 was published October 2, 2023, dropping all dependencies on
> the retiring packages. sp will continue to be available and maintained, but
> not developed further. Users of sp classes may continue to make use of
> them, but will have to use sf or terra to read, write or manipulate objects
> with coercion (for a guide to coercion, see
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgrass/vignettes/coerce.html).
> >>
> >> Information about the evolution project may be found in reports and
> resources at https://r-spatial.github.io/evolution/; a recent blog by
> Jakub Nowosad may also be useful as an overview of what has been going on:
> https://geocompx.org/post/2023/rgdal-retirement/. For more detail, see
> https://r-spatial.github.io/evolution/ogh23_bivand.html and a video
> recording of this presentation https://av.tib.eu/media/63141 (August 28).
> >>
> >> All directly affected package maintainers have been alerted to the
> impending changes, some in December 2022, most others in March-April 2023.
> Many have already updated their packages on CRAN - thank you for your
> understanding! The remainder received github issue comments and email
> reminders in the last ten days, and will receive final notices to update by
> October 9.
> >>
> >> On R-universe, builds of packages archived on CRAN are dropped
> automatically (https://github.com/r-universe-org/help/issues/286).
> Read-only github mirrors of archived packages will remain available in
> principle while github exists (https://github.com/r-hub/rhub/issues/568),
> for example https://github.com/cran/rgdal. Other binary builds (Debian,
> Fedora, Ubuntu) have been alerted; support at Anaconda has been alerted.
> >>
> >> On CRAN, the retired packages will continue to be available as source
> packages on https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive. maptools,
> rgdal and rgeos also retain their R-forge repositories, which may be used
> to retrieve functions for adding to other packages.
> >>
> >> A snapshot of Windows and macOS binary packages may be found on
> https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution/tree/main/backstore.
> >>
> >> Please raise questions by replying to this post, or as issues on
> https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Roger Bivand
> >> Emeritus Professor
> >> Norwegian School of Economics
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