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.biv...@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 > Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway > roger.biv...@nhh.no > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
