dependency on retiring spatial infrastructure packages

[rsbivand]

dependency on retiring spatial infrastructure packages

[rsbivand]

Maybe run CMD check when the retiring packages have been removed, or are not on the library path.

[rsbivand]

@cmerow See also https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html. Please take urgent steps to resolve this issue. No positive changes appear in the repository. Less than three months remain to retain this package on CRAN.

[rsbivand]

@cmerow Less than three weeks remain to fix this. Can the switch_to_sf_and_terra branch be submitted in time?

[bmaitner]

@cmerow The pull request I submitted a while back should take care of the issues. I've run all the devtools checks that I can (i.e., those that don't have to be run by the package maintainer), and everything checks out. So we should just be able to merge and then submit the updates to CRAN

[rsbivand]

@bmaitner @cmerow R spatial infrastructure packages maptools, rgdal and rgeos will be archived by CRAN on Monday, October 16, 2023. Your package does not pass CMD check when these packages are not available. Expect your package to be archived by CRAN October 17-18 as CRAN checks feed through and your package fails, if not updated by Monday, October 16, 2023.

No grace period is anticipated, as you have had sufficient time to update your package to remove dependencies on maptools, rgdal and/or rgeos. It remains the case that many packages importing the raster package needlessly depend on retiring packages, as raster stopped using them a year ago.

[rsbivand]

Thanks for your cooperation!