[R-pkg-team] Bug#1049438: r-cran-rgdal: autopkgtest needs update for new version of r-cran-sp

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 August 2023 at 13:58, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Control: tags -1 upstream
| Control: forwarded -1 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
| 
| Hi Roger,
| 
| the CI tests in Debian uncovered some conflict between recent rgdal and
| version 2.0 of sp.  As you either can see in the bug report that was
| filed[1] or in a recent CI build log[2] it fails with
| 
| In CRS("+init=epsg:4326") :> sp.tr <- spTransform(sp, CRS("+init=epsg:3857"))
|  sf required for evolution_status==2L
| Error in spTransform(sp, CRS("+init=epsg:3857")) : 
|   source crs creation failed: Invalid PROJ string syntax
| Calls: spTransform -> spTransform
| 
| It would be great if you could adapt rgdal to the latest version of sp.

Possibly related to a *planned* and *announced* phaseout.

See the DESCRIPTION file entry Description upstream

  [...] Please note that 'rgdal' will be retired during October 2023,
  plan transition to sf/stars/'terra' functions using 'GDAL' and 'PROJ'
  at your earliest convenience (see
  <https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html> and earlier blogs
  for guidance).

Erlier posts are

  https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/04/12/evolution.html
  https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html
  https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/04/10/evolution3.html

This is exemplary for guidance from an upstream project. 

Dirk

| 
| Kind regards
|     Andreas.
| 
| 
| [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1049438
| [2] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-rgdal/-/jobs/4562837#L790
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