Many of us rely on the raster package as a crucial basis for their work. Big thank to Robert.  Nevertheless to contribute needs to focus needs and ressources.  Maybe an information exchange/discussion with Robert about options such as if/how the interested community can support would be more productive.

cheers Chris

Am 21.10.2017 um 06:52 schrieb Roger Bivand:
The CRAN raster package has not been abandoned, if it had, it would have been 
reclassified as orphaned. Its test results have notes but no warnings or 
errors. It would be orphaned if the maintainer did not respond to CRAN requests 
to resolve test errors. Consequently, you are suggesting a fork, and should 
rename any package. Only the maintainer may update existing CRAN packages. I 
would not think that forking an existing CRAN package is the most productive 
way of contributing to the community. The package has many reverse 
dependencies, so setting up a test framework to find backwards 
incompatibilities would be crucial.

Of course, all contributions are welcome.

Roger

Roger Bivand
Norwegian School of Economics
Bergen, Norway



Fra: Michael Sumner
Sendt: lørdag 21. oktober, 06.28
Emne: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates?
Til: Hodgess, Erin
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Great! I'm keen, but haven't done the work needed to flesh this out properly: https://github.com/mdsumner/raster-rforge/issues I have not checked if there's been any commits to r-forge since I cloned this. Cheers, Mike On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 12:58 Hodgess, Erin, wrote: > I could take a swat at it, if you wish. Please do send me the list of 
> fixes. I could start in about a week, if that would work. > Sincerely, > Erin > > > Erin M. Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: hodge...@uhd.edu > > ________________________________________ > From: R-sig-Geo on behalf of 
Michael > Sumner > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:05 PM > To: Thiago V. dos Santos > Cc: R-sig-geo Mailing List > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Is the raster package still receiving updates? > > No, it's effectively abandoned. No concrete plans known. > > I'm interested to keep it going and have kept a list of fixes 
needed, but > not sure when or if I'll get to it. > > I'd support any efforts in this, I'll rely on raster for many years still. > > Cheers, Mike > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, 02:05 Thiago V. dos Santos via R-sig-Geo, < > r-sig-geo@r-project.org> wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > I realized that the 
latest version of the raster package was released on > > CRAN over a year ago. > > > > I also noticed that Robert's participation in this list has become rather > > scarce. > > > > I was just wondering whether the raster package is still receiving > updates? > > > > Greetings, > > -- 
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