[R-sig-Geo] Checking for interest in taking over the development of the seg package

[Edzer Pebesma]

On 16/01/2025 22:17, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya wrote:
> Dear professor Pebesma,
> Thank you for responding to my request. I don't know how to reach Seong-yun
>   outside of github and his email. I hope that he sees this thread and lets
> us know if he agrees with us taking over maintenance or if he has other
> wishes.
> 
> I see your PR on GH but I don't seem to have write access to merge it. What
> would be the correct way of continue the work? Could we work from a
> forked repo?

Yes; the code is GPL so that is allowed.

If someone different from the current maintainer would want to submit it 
to CRAN then they should give the package a different name; see 
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

> 
> Kind regards
> Guilherme
> 
> 2025年1月16日(木) 9:55 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma using uni-muenster.de>:
> 
>> Dear Guilherme, I made a minimal PR here:
>>
>> https://github.com/syunhong/seg/pull/3
>>
>> which makes the package pass R CMD check again; it needs some more work
>> to clean examples. I'd be willing to help with the sp -> sf transition.
>>
>> The maintainer (Cc:) seems unresponsive on GH, how do you want to deal
>> with that? Maybe give them a call?
>>
>> Many regards,
>>
>> On 15/01/2025 16:43, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>> The seg package, that implements spatial segregation measures of various
>>> kinds has been abandoned by its previous developer and kicked out from
>> CRAN
>>> for not passing its tests. Worse yet, other packages that implemented the
>>> same segregation indices (like OasisR) depend on seg.
>>>
>>> The previous maintainer does not respond anymore to the issue threads on
>>> github and Roger Bivand suggested to me that I ask here if anyone is
>>> interested in taking over the maintenance.
>>>
>>> The main issue with the package is that it relied on spgrass6. That has
>>> been fixed since then by the former maintainer but it still doesn't pass
>>> the checks at CRAN. It also looks like it could use changing
>> documentation
>>> to Roxygen and finalizing its transition from using sp to using sf
>> objects.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am up to helping out with these tasks but my R skills are not the most
>>> advanced, and would prefer to do it with someone more knowledgeable. Is
>>> there anybody interested in joining me for that?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Guilherme Chihaya
>>>
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Edzer Pebesma (he/him)
Universität Münster, Institute for Geoinformatics
Heisenbergstrasse 2, 48149 Münster, Germany
Phone: +49 251 8333081