[GRASS-user] Fwd: [GRASS-stats] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday, October 16

[Veronica Andreo]

Relevant info for GRASS users using R packages

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De: Roger Bivand via grass-stats <grass-stats at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: mar, 3 oct 2023 a las 5:22
Subject: [GRASS-stats] maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 retiring Monday,
October 16
To: grass-stats at lists.osgeo.org <grass-stats at lists.osgeo.org>


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be archived by CRAN on Monday, October 16, 2023; rgrass7 has already been
replaced by rgrass and will be archived with the retiring packages.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.Bivand at nhh.no
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