[GRASS-stats] rgrass7 0.2-8 on CRAN

[Roger Bivand]

Version 0.2-8 of rgrass7 (R-GRASS GIS interface) has been published on 
CRAN. This version also works with GRASS 8, despite the package name, but 
also represents a bridge to the future rgrass package, no longer using 
rgdal but now terra for file transfer.

This release will permit those using functions readRAST(), writeRAST(), 
readVECT() and writeVECT() to transition to the new read_RAST(), 
write_RAST(), read_VECT() and write_VECT(), which use SpatRaster and 
SpatVector objects defined in the terra package, and which may be coerced 
to stars, raster and sp objects for rasters, and sf and sp objects for 
vector. Details of the development may be followed through 
https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass/issues/42, with lots of helpful input 
from contributors. Since rgdal will retire during 2023, these steps were 
necessary, as well as opening up the R-GRASS interface to other R packages 
and workflows.

Please report any problems in this thread, and/or raise issues on 
https://github.com/rsbivand/rgrass/issues.

Best wishes,

Roger

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Roger Bivand
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Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
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