Following our email exchange, see here a 1st revision/refactoring of the CRAN Spatial task view for your review. The pull request covers 2 things:
a refreshing proposal for the task view, in order to categorize further the items, with the aim to facilitate access for users by category of packages.
addition of 4 packages i've created and maintain on CRAN (my initial request when I contacted you):
The refactoring first handles a reshape of the layout of the main categories, handling header html elements for better visibility. Only slight modifications were provided to the main categoris titles, and further sub-categories and sections were added.
the 1st one is extended to metadata: Classes for spatial data and metadata; and subsections: spatial vector data, spatial raster data, geographic metadata (with geometa but also ncf4 for support of self-described NetCDF-CF Conventions.
Read and Write Spatial data (put before - Handling spatial data), and splitted into subsections. The first one deserves to be kept, targeting rgdal: Reading and writing spatial data - rgdal. I've then refactored the other content to be clustered into the following sub-categories:
-- Read and Write Spatial data - data formats, where i've highlighted 2 sub-sections: one on open OGC standards (that IMHO deserves to be highlighted), and another on proprietary formats (including ESRI Shapefile).
-- Read and Write Spatial data - Software connectors (with PostGis, QGIS, SAGA, GRASS etc)
-- Read and Write Spatial data - Interfaces to Spatial Web-Services: this is new in the spatial task view, and where i've added my contributed packages geosapi, geonapi and ows4R
-- All datasource-related packages were listed under a sub-category Specific geospatial data sources of interest where there is probably room for improvement.
Handling Spatial Data has also been sub-sectioned to reflect general data processing packages, raster processing, data cleaning
Visualisation --> Visualizing spatial data where subcategories were added: common tools for visualization, thematic cartography packages, packages based on web-mapping frameworks (leaflet, google maps, etc), and cartograms creation.
The different categories for analysis were clustered in a parent category "Analyzing spatial data". I didn't touch at all to the categories point pattern analysis, geostatistics and Disease mapping and areal data analysis, mainly because I don't know the different packages, and how they could be eventually clustered into subsections and less paragraph-based.
I'm aware that this proposal is far from being perfect, but I hope it could be a 1st iteration to refresh and improve the Spatial task view. Of course, your comments are welcome, and I will be keen on helping further to improve and maintain the view.
FYI: I've ensured that the command for transforming to html was working fine (no tags error), and made a final text review based on the created HTML.
Dear @rsbivand ,
Following our email exchange, see here a 1st revision/refactoring of the CRAN Spatial task view for your review. The pull request covers 2 things:
The refactoring first handles a reshape of the layout of the main categories, handling header html elements for better visibility. Only slight modifications were provided to the main categoris titles, and further sub-categories and sections were added.
the 1st one is extended to metadata:
Classes for spatial data and metadata; and subsections: spatial vector data, spatial raster data, geographic metadata (withgeometabut alsoncf4for support of self-described NetCDF-CF Conventions.Read and Write Spatial data(put before -Handling spatial data), and splitted into subsections. The first one deserves to be kept, targeting rgdal:Reading and writing spatial data - rgdal. I've then refactored the other content to be clustered into the following sub-categories: --Read and Write Spatial data - data formats, where i've highlighted 2 sub-sections: one onopen OGC standards(that IMHO deserves to be highlighted), and another onproprietary formats(including ESRI Shapefile). --Read and Write Spatial data - Software connectors(with PostGis, QGIS, SAGA, GRASS etc) --Read and Write Spatial data - Interfaces to Spatial Web-Services: this is new in the spatial task view, and where i've added my contributed packagesgeosapi,geonapiandows4R-- All datasource-related packages were listed under a sub-categorySpecific geospatial data sources of interestwhere there is probably room for improvement.Handling Spatial Datahas also been sub-sectioned to reflectgeneral data processingpackages,raster processing,data cleaningVisualisation-->Visualizing spatial datawhere subcategories were added: common tools for visualization, thematic cartography packages, packages based on web-mapping frameworks (leaflet, google maps, etc), and cartograms creation.The different categories for analysis were clustered in a parent category "Analyzing spatial data". I didn't touch at all to the categories
point pattern analysis,geostatisticsandDisease mapping and areal data analysis, mainly because I don't know the different packages, and how they could be eventually clustered into subsections and less paragraph-based.I'm aware that this proposal is far from being perfect, but I hope it could be a 1st iteration to refresh and improve the Spatial task view. Of course, your comments are welcome, and I will be keen on helping further to improve and maintain the view.
FYI: I've ensured that the command for transforming to html was working fine (no tags error), and made a final text review based on the created HTML.
Looking forward to your feedback
Best regards Emmanuel