New R data packages with geospatial data for Costa Rica and Central America
ManuelSpinola opened this issue · 9 comments
cageo, an R package with geospatial data of Central America.
https://github.com/ManuelSpinola/cageo
crgeo, an R package with geospatial data of Costa Rica
@ManuelSpinola could you create a pull request adding your packages to the https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/blob/main/Spatial.md#specific-geospatial-data-sources-of-interest section?
One possible way to do it is to:
Go to https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/edit/main/Spatial.md, edit the text mentioning your packages, and then click "Propose changes" at the bottom.
If you could, I would rather suggest "specific-geospatial-data-sources-of-interest".
@ManuelSpinola are these packages on CRAN? They should be before adding them to the task view...
Neither are on CRAN, nor will they ever be, I'm afraid, many rda objects are far too large for CRAN to accept. They are not APIs to external data sources, but simply freeze downloads from other API. Arguably, all the types of data should be re-designed to download the chosen datasets from upstream data sources. Further, choosing to package rasters for say stars is less portable than letting the user download the data as an external format. Note that packages defining classes needed to use the data objects are not listed in DESCRIPTION. No vignettes either. Not only not on CRAN, nor on a drat instance, but not very sensibly organised yet either. I think this isn't going anywhere; I should have checked prior to encouraging @ManuelSpinola to submit here.