Agreed 100%. I'm blown away by the amount of work and care that you put into helping people use these packages. I never would have completed my dissertation without the willingness to respond thoughtfully to my obviously "noob" questions on this forum.
-----Original Message----- From: R-sig-Geo <r-sig-geo-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Danlin Yu Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 9:36 AM To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16 Dear Dr. Roger Bivand: I echo this comment and sentiment. Dr. Roger Bivand is not only a great scholar and generous contributor, maintainer to the R-spatial task force, but also a fantastic mentor to us all. No amount of "thank you" would be sufficient. Best, Danlin On 10/3/2023 5:22 AM, Gilberto Camara wrote: > 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 -- ___________________________________________ Danlin Yu, Ph.D. Professor of GIS and Urban Geography Department of Earth & Environmental Studies Montclair State University Montclair, NJ, 07043 Tel: 973-655-4313 Fax: 973-655-4072 Office: CELS 314 Email: y...@montclair.edu webpage: csam.montclair.edu/~yu Academic Editor and Editorial Board Member: Remote Sensing Special Issues: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/UPES_Big_Data_ra Editor's Choice Articles: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice Most Cited & Viewed: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/most_cited Academic Editor and Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Special Issues: Urban livability in the Big Data Era https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/urban_environmental_management Heavy metal contamination in urban environment https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/S61HUBE7B1 Any submission to the special issues prior to Jan. 31, 2024 will receive a 25% discount of APC. _______________________________________________ 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
