Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-16 Thread Josiah Parry
Congratulations and thank you so much for your hard work here!

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:53 AM Roger Bivand  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 already been replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring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
> > [email protected]
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> >
>
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> Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-16 Thread Roger Bivand
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.



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Norwegian School of Economics
Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway
[email protected]
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Manuel Spínola
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 <
[email protected]> 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  On Behalf Of Danlin Yu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 9:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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  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 [email protected]
> >> ___
> >> R-sig-Geo mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/m

Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Sean Trende via R-sig-Geo
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  On Behalf Of Danlin Yu
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 9:36 AM
To: [email protected]
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  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 [email protected] 
>> ___
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Danlin Yu

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  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.


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Norwegian School of Economics
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Gilberto Camara
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  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
> [email protected]
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Gilberto Camara
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  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.
> 
> 
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> Roger Bivand
> Emeritus Professor
> Norwegian School of Economics
> Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway
> [email protected]
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[R-sig-Geo] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

2023-10-03 Thread Roger Bivand
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.


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Roger Bivand
Emeritus Professor
Norwegian School of Economics
Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway
[email protected]
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