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

[Guilherme Kenji Chihaya]

I merged your PR into my fork of seg. I suggest that we continue working on
seg while we wait for Seong-yun's response.
Kind regards,
Guilherme

2025年1月17日(金) 9:06 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma using uni-muenster.de>:

>
>
> 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
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