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In AndySouth/rnaturalearthdata: World Vector Map Data from Natural Earth Used in 'rnaturalearth'

Resubmission

There 1 reverse dependency that failed (BeeBDC). The maintainer have been contacted and ready to submit an update to CRAN as soon as rnaturealearthdata is accepted (see https://github.com/jbdorey/BeeBDC/issues/10#issuecomment-1935177189).

New maintainer

Hi,

I am one of the maintainers for the rnaturalearth packages (https://github.com/ropensci/rnaturalearth). If you work in the spatial domain, you're likely aware that certain spatial packages, such as raster, rgdal, regos, etc., have been archived (see https://geocompx.org/post/2023/rgdal-retirement/).

As a result, we migrated rnaturalearth to v1.0.0, which now utilizes modern interfaces (sf and terra). Additionally, rnaturalearth relies on rnaturealearthdata (https://github.com/ropensci/rnaturalearthdata), essentially a data package. I've made all the necessary changes to rnaturalearthdata to incorporate sf and terra.

The current challenge we face is that, as an author of the package, I am unable to submit it to CRAN. Despite attempting to reach out to the creator through GitHub and email months ago, I have not received any response. I don't believe the person is acting in bad faith; rather, they seem to be less actively involved in the library's development.

We've received several inquiries from users regarding the release date of rnaturalearthdata v1.0.0 on CRAN (https://github.com/ropensci/rnaturalearthdata/issues/11#issuecomment-1916449085). At this point, I'm unsure of how to proceed. I have added myself as a "cre" in the description file. Please let me know if this is the right approach or if I can do anything else.

revdepcheck results

We checked 19 reverse dependencies, comparing R CMD check results across CRAN and dev versions of this package.

• We saw 1 new problems
• We failed to check 0 packages

Issues with CRAN packages are summarised below.

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• BeeBDC checking tests ...

R CMD check results

• The package was tested on:

• os: macos-latest with r: 'release'

• os: windows-latest with r: 'release'
• os: ubuntu-latest with r: 'devel'
• os: ubuntu-latest with r: 'release'

• os: ubuntu-latest with r: 'oldrel-1'

• The package was tested on rhub and on winbuilder.

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