
Well, I hope something is done with Spatial Lines that seem strangely like orphans
while Spatial Points, Spatial Polygons, Spatial Grids and Spatial Pixels get all the love.
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:13:07 +0000
> From: b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk
> To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org
> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] R 3.0.0 and spatial classes
> 
> There's been an announcement that the next version of R will be called
> 3.0.0. Although not a massive change (compared to Python 2.x and 3.x,
> or Perl 4 to Perl 5), it might be a good opportunity to revise all the
> spatial classes in order to:
> 
>  * clear out any cruft
>  * remove any inconsistencies
>  * add some new functionality
>  * unify across spatial packages
> 
> The first thing that springs to mind, for example, is getting sp and
> raster to use the same functions for coordinate reference system
> processing. Doubtless there are other opprtunities for synergy...
> 
>  Yes, this may well break existing code, but if R is going to jump
> from 2 to 3 then that will break existing code too.
> 
>  Your ponderances, please...
> 
> Barry
> 
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