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

[Josiah Parry]

Congratulations and thank you so much for your hard work here!

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:53 AM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> wrote:

> As previously announced, maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 have been
> archived by CRAN at my request. Some turbulence may be expected as about
> 80 packages with remaining strong dependencies on the archived packages
> also are archived. I'm very grateful to many maintainers who have
> responded to requests to update in time.
>
> Going forward, sp 2.1-1 will be submitted shortly removing on-load
> messages, and about 70 non-updated packages with remaining weak
> dependencies on the archived packages will be warned to update.
>
> Any issues arising from the evolution process should be reported here or
> at https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution/issues.
>
> Roger
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Roger Bivand 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 already been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring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
> > Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway
> > Roger.Bivand using nhh.no
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>
> --
> Roger Bivand
> Emeritus Professor
> Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
> Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
> e-mail: Roger.Bivand using nhh.no
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