Closed pitkant closed 8 months ago
Addressed in v4-dev branch and PR #264. Relying on giscoR package in get_eurostat_geospatial
functionalities will be the way to go in the future.
I will close this issue when v4 is released
Closed with the CRAN release of package version 4.0.0
Executive summary
Two alternative paths for package development:
get_eurostat_geospatial()
) and provide improved documentation / vignette and potentially some helper functions for giscoR package.sp
packageDeadline
October 2023
Background
To make map visualization easy for end users
eurostat
has had built-in functions to visualise Eurostat data on a map and has included sf and sp packages as Imports. However, in 2023rgdal
,rgeos
andmaptools
packages will be retired and sp package will evolve, havingsf
at minimum as a weak dependency.More information from this message and in the link:
Other considerations