NEWS.md

In maptools: Tools for Handling Spatial Objects

Please note that maptools will be retired during October 2023, plan transition at your earliest convenience (see https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html and earlier blogs for guidance); some functionality will be moved to sp.

Version 1.1-8 (development, rev. 421-)

• Ensure that only strings are compared with package versions

• Deprecate functions handling KML, handed off to https://github.com/rsbivand/spkml and seeking new maintainer

• Deprecate methods moved to new suntools package (1.1-9 will stop exporting them); until then use library("maptools", exclude=c("crepuscule", "solarnoon", "solarpos", "sunriset")) to prefer suntools if loading maptools after suntools

Version 1.1-7 (2023-05-29, rev. 414-420)

• remove gpclib and Rgshhs

• Make retirement in October 2023 explicit, move package start-up messages to load from attach

• elide() deprecated and moved to sp

Version 1.1-6 (2022-12-14, rev. 411-413)

• CRAN sprintf() warnings

Version 1.1-5 (2022-10-22, rev. 402-410)

• lineLabel.R and pointLabelLattice.R deprecated, see https://github.com/oscarperpinan/rastervis/issues/93

• functions using shapelib fully deprecated

• pointLabel() deprecated; moved to car rev. 725

Version 1.1-4 (2022-04-17, rev. 401)

• remove escaping of underscore in manual pages

Version 1.1-3 (2022-03-08, rev. 400)

• Fix unconditional library(RColor-Brewer) call in help pages

Version 1.1-2 (2021-09-07, rev. 392-399)

• Version check for forthcoming GEOS 3.10

Version 1.1-1 (2021-03-15, rev. 381-391)

• Upgrade spatstat-family reverse dependencies

Version 1.0-2 (2020-08-24, rev. 371-380)

• New as.im.RasterLayer() version

• Update stored sp objects

Version 1.0-1 (2020-05-14, rev. -370)

• Update for linnet coercion methods

• Added read support for (very) legacy MAP objects

maptools documentation built on July 26, 2023, 5:38 p.m.