I also echo all this comments. Very grateful for Roger Bivand effort.
Manuel On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 07:41 Sean Trende via R-sig-Geo < r-sig-geo@r-project.org> wrote: > 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 been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring packages.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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
