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I do not have a good understanding of what benefits this could bring but I would of course lend my moral support if others think this is worth pursuing and want to take the lead on. So feel free to add raster/terra etc as parts of the R spatial system. |
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@Robinlovelace R-GRASS more than 20 years! Please also add the link to https://github.com/rspatial and the migration of raster towards terra as per @rhijmans comment. |
We want to become a community project, right?
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| We are a diverse group with a shared interest in developing free and open tools for the reproducible analysis of geographic data. R is a popular and rapidly growing language for statistical computing and 'data science'. It is alreay part of OSGeo ecosystem: R ships with the OSGeo Live distribution, integrates with established OSGeo projects such as [GRASS](https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/R_statistics), and (now slightly dated) tutorials listed on OSGeo's [old website](http://old.www.osgeo.org/educational_content). |
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@Robinlovelace I hope comments to your doc is better than creating a second PR and next try to merge them...
alreay -> already
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Thanks, will make those changes now. I have a few questions that I'll ask here #44
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| We are a diverse group with a shared interest in developing free and open tools for the reproducible analysis of geographic data. R is a popular and rapidly growing language for statistical computing and 'data science'. It is alreay part of OSGeo ecosystem: R ships with the OSGeo Live distribution, integrates with established OSGeo projects such as [GRASS](https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/R_statistics), and (now slightly dated) tutorials listed on OSGeo's [old website](http://old.www.osgeo.org/educational_content). | ||
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| After a discussion on our GitHub Organisation at [github.com/r-spatial](https://github.com/r-spatial), it is clear that closer links could be mutually beneficial. Collaboration is at the heart of open source software and the R community has a long history. The history of R-GRASS bridges, for example, covers more than [20 years](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00057-1) and goes in both directions. R interfaces enable a wide range of people to access OSGeo supported software to be accessed, from a reproducible command line interface. |
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GRASS -> GRASS GIS
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| Continued development and innovation in R-OSGeo links are illustrated the [qgisprocess](https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess) package, which motivated positive changes in the QGIS source code (see [github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess/issues/21](https://github.com/paleolimbot/qgisprocess/issues/21)). The R-Spatial community relies on the OSGeo projects GDAL, PROJ and GEOS for data access and geographic operations. Core R-Spatial packages `sf`, `raster` and `terra` use bindings to the libraries for much of the heavy lifting and many thousands of people using R for spatial research (often without knowing) run OSGeo support code every day. We would like to support the ongoing work of these vital components of the wider community that is represented by the OSGeo-affiliated conference series FOSS4G. We also anticipate benefits from being part of the wider OSGeo community and would like to be more active members of wider movement advocating free and open source software for geospatial. | ||
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| 'R-Spatial' is can be loosely defined as the ecosystem of code, projects and people using R for working with and adding value to spatial data. A manifestation of the wider R-Spatial community is the friendly, vibrant and diverse range of voices using the [#rspatial](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rspatial) tag on Twitter. For the purposes of OSGeo supported *software* projects however, we define R-Spatial packages as those that can be found on at https://github.com/rspatial/ (which includes key packages `raster` and `terra`) and https://github.com/r-spatial/ (which includes `sf`, `stars` and many other popular packages for working with spatial data). |
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| We are a diverse group with a shared interest in developing free and open tools for the reproducible analysis of geographic data. R is a popular and rapidly growing language for statistical computing and 'data science'. It is already part of OSGeo ecosystem: R ships with the OSGeo Live distribution, integrates with established OSGeo projects such as [GRASS GIS](https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/R_statistics), and (now slightly dated) tutorials listed on OSGeo's [old website](http://old.www.osgeo.org/educational_content). | ||
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| After a discussion on our GitHub Organisation at [github.com/r-spatial](https://github.com/r-spatial), it is clear that closer links could be mutually beneficial. Collaboration is at the heart of open source software and the R community has a long history. The history of R-GRASS GIS bridges, for example, covers more than [20 years](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00057-1) and goes in both directions. R interfaces enable a wide range of people to access OSGeo-supported software from a reproducible command-line interface. |
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A general remark considering these two paragraphs. GRASS GIS is taken as (sole) connected OSGeo GIS example in two paragraphs before embarking on connections with several other OSGeo projects in a next paragraph. An alternative would be to already mention some other projects at an early stage in the text.
E.g. at 'integrates with established OSGeo projects such as GRASS GIS' a few more could be enumerated already.
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I haven't been able to follow the evolution of the letter, but great initiative! |
@Robinlovelace I would like to be added to this list, if possible
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Great idea ! I believe it will be very well receive by the OSGeo community. |
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It is not intended to become a full project, but rather an OSGeo Community, if I understand correctly. |
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Ok thanks, I wasn't sure. I do think then that the sentence should be changed (just not in the way I suggested) to make that clear. |
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Correct, will change that. |
Co-authored-by: Andy Teucher <[email protected]>
(committing to future dev work!)
Add link to R geospatial quickstart in OSGeoLive + typo
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add name
Added Nick Bearman
Add Ahmadou Dicko to the list of dev
Add Timothée Giraud to the developers list
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