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r-lidar / lidR

Airborne LiDAR data manipulation and visualisation for forestry application
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lidR
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Please remove dependencies on **rgdal**, **rgeos**, and/or **maptools** #650

Closed rsbivand closed 1 year ago

rsbivand commented 1 year ago

This package depends on (depends, imports or suggests) raster and one or more of the retiring packages rgdal, rgeos or maptools (https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/04/12/evolution.html, https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html). Since raster 3.6.3, all use of external FOSS library functionality has been transferred to terra, making the retiring packages very likely redundant. It would help greatly if you could remove dependencies on the retiring packages as soon as possible.

Jean-Romain commented 1 year ago

rgdal is now removed.

However I don't know when I will be able to release on CRAN. I can no longer release lidR on CRAN for months because it takes too long to check on Windows and the submission is systematically rejected.

For an unknow reason each step of R CMD check on CRAN's Windows machine takes 2 to 7 times longer than on Debian. The timing that was previously ok is no longer accepted and I'm tired of fighting against the constantly changing CRAN policies. I considered removing unit tests but this won't be enough to gain 2+ minutes. So, I eventually resigned and stopped updating the package because at this stage I must remove the unit tests and the documentation to get a chance to reach the target timing.

Jean-Romain commented 1 year ago

Problem solved. For the first time for months Uwe Ligges triggered reverse depency despite timing problem. lidR is on its way.