Congratulations and thank you so much for your hard work here! On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:53 AM Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no> wrote:
> As previously announced, maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 have been > archived by CRAN at my request. Some turbulence may be expected as about > 80 packages with remaining strong dependencies on the archived packages > also are archived. I'm very grateful to many maintainers who have > responded to requests to update in time. > > Going forward, sp 2.1-1 will be submitted shortly removing on-load > messages, and about 70 non-updated packages with remaining weak > dependencies on the archived packages will be warned to update. > > Any issues arising from the evolution process should be reported here or > at https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution/issues. > > Roger > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Roger Bivand 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 already been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring 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 > > > > -- > Roger Bivand > Emeritus Professor > Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, > Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway. > e-mail: roger.biv...@nhh.no > > _______________________________________________ > 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
