{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/r-spatial/discuss/issues/11","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/r-spatial/discuss","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/r-spatial/discuss/issues/11/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/r-spatial/discuss/issues/11/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/r-spatial/discuss/issues/11/events","html_url":"https://github.com/r-spatial/discuss/issues/11","id":213594730,"number":11,"title":"Moving spatial related R packages to r-spatial organization?","user":{"login":"pat-s","id":8430564,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/8430564?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s","html_url":"https://github.com/pat-s","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pat-s/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":13,"created_at":"2017-03-12T10:01:24Z","updated_at":"2017-03-12T20:57:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"As @tim-salabim said yesterday, he wants to move `mapview` to `r-spatial`. \r\n\r\nTo promote this organization and to have spatial related R packages at one place, we could think over moving more spatial related R packages here? \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `gstat` @edzer \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `sf` @edzer \r\n\r\n- [ ] `sp` @edzer \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `raster` Robert Hijmans not on Github afaik? (currently only hosted as a [CRAN mirror](https://github.com/cran/raster)) \r\n\r\n- [ ] `rgdal`  (currently only hosted as a [CRAN mirror](https://github.com/cran/rgdal)) @rsbivand \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `rgrass7` (currently only hosted as a [CRAN mirror](https://github.com/cran/rgrass7)) @rsbivand\r\n\r\n- [ ]  `rgeos` (currently only hosted as a [CRAN mirror](https://github.com/cran/rgeos)) @rsbivand\r\n\r\n- [ ]  `RQGIS` @jannes-m\r\n\r\n- [ ] `sperrorest` @pat-s\r\n\r\n- [ ]  `mapview` @tim-salabim \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `rasterVis`@oscarperpinan \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `RSAGA` @debangs \r\n\r\n- [ ]  `ggspatial` @paleolimbot \r\n\r\n(feel free to suggest more, this was just a brief start of packages which came to my mind)\r\n\r\n[Here](https://help.github.com/articles/what-s-the-difference-between-user-and-organization-accounts/) are some points explaining the advantages of an organization. Famous R related organisations that I know of are [rstudio](https://github.com/rstudio) and [ropensci](https://github.com/ropensci). 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I think a single organization makes sense if a group of packages are designed to work with eachother (something like the `tidyverse` family), and I think there is still much work to do on this front. In my work, `sp`, `raster`, and `rgdal` form the basis for anything spatial I try to do in R, and having the source for these available on GitHub in a predictable place (like \"rspatial/sp\") would make me more likely to build a new package that is consistent with existing usage (and perhaps duplicates less functionality). If accessibility in other countries is an issue, I am sure it could be easily mirrored somewhere else (perhaps even on a commit-by-commit basis using commit hooks).\r\n\r\nIn terms of selecting packages, I would argue that packages that simply provide functionality (like `ggspatial`) shouldn't be included (or put in a different category), but providing a predictable source-code location for ones that serve as a building block for other packages (`sp`, `raster`, `gdal`, and many of the others listed above) would save me time when trying to write packages."}}
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