#rspatial not to over-complicate or anything. The specific issue is muparser in RTools. More generally, motivation is an example case for better understanding how R spatial community can provide feedback/support/contribute upstream regarding spatial libs in RTools. If you have advice or suggestions based on previous experience in this area, or other thoughts along those lines, please consider dropping a note in https://github.com/firelab/gdalraster/issues/858.

GDAl User Survey is out and about - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMRkUH6DIA4OJ7Qu1y_iRlrfP4XgZ2KB1qhd0VuMdi72xgDw/viewform #gdal #foss4g

Heya R devs - did you know you can run all your favorite GitHub actions on Codeberg?

Codeberg is rolling out Forgejo actions - an (almost) drop-in replacement for GitHub actions, which means we can (almost) use `r-lib/actions` directly on a free and open source platform!

Just a couple tweaks are needed, and for your convenience I'm automatically mirroring r-lib/actions and applying those changes so they're ready to use.

https://codeberg.org/r-codeberg/r-lib-actions

#rlang #rstats #codeberg

The largest fundamental science agency in Europe will save €1.4 million annually by breaking free from Clavariate Analytics' commercial databases of references and citations.

Starting January 1st 2026, the CNRS will stop subscribing from the Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

"We have worked for free to lock ourselves collectively into a paid system", one head of the CNRS explains - but no more! 🎉

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death John Fox this week. He was the author of numerous books on applied statistics and accompanying #RStats packages including car, effects, Rcmdr, ivreg, and matlib. John was a member of the R Foundation until 2023.

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@physaliacourses2/115463879241980538

Only 2 seats left for the #SpatialStatistics with R course!
#Rstats

Instructor: @edzer

The deprecated macros ‘CHARACTER_DATA’ and ‘CHARACTER_POINTER’ now return ‘const’ pointers since using writable pointers in packages is not safe.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/11/12

‘R CMD check’ ‘NOTE’s on the use of these non-API entry points have been upgraded to ‘WARNING’s in preparation for removing declarations and, where possible, hiding these entry points: ‘R_nchar’, ‘VECTOR_PTR’, ‘R_tryWrap’, ‘Rf_NonNullStringMatch’, ‘Rf_isValidString’ ‘Rf_GetOption’, ‘SET_FRAME’, ‘SET_HASHTAB’, ‘SET_ENCLOS’, ‘STDVEC_DATAPTR’, ‘SET_S4_OBJECT’, ‘UNSET_S4_OBJECT’, ‘SET_NAMED’, ‘R_lsInternal’, ‘Rf_lazy_duplicate’, ‘EXTPTR_PROT’, ‘EXTPTR_PTR’, ‘EXTPTR_TAG’,...
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/11/12

Day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenege! In which I attempt simple LiDAR processing for the first time using SedonaDB. Behold...a high-resolution elevation map of what's under my feet in my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Getting the data here is an example of where Arrow shines...we don't have a built-in LAS reader yet but we can patch one in using a dozen lines of Python. Code + walk through in comments! https://dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2025/day-5-earth/

Next year's edition of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU26) in Vienna has a new session, dedicated to high-performance computation in the geosciences.

This session is for people working on software to solve larger problems and solve problems faster. It is fine for presenters in this session to get technical and show code. In fact, that is recommended!

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/57187

(Thanks for boosting)

#hpc #gis #egu26 #rse #programming

GDAL 3.11.5 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2025-November/061138.html

Only a few seats remain for our online course “Spatial Statistics with R”, taking place 17–21 November.

Instructor: @edzer

https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/spatial-statistics/

Publication of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog Community Standards: The Open Geospatial Consortium (#OGC) has officially published the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (#STAC) Community Standards, marking a key milestone in data #interoperability. Built for flexibility and scalability, STAC provides a standardized...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/28-publication-of-the-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-community-standards/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

New on The R Blog from Tomas Kalibera: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports

https://blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/reducing-the-backlog-of-open-bug-reports/

#RStats

🚨 Big news for the R Community!

The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization.

Details: https://r-consortium.org/posts/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-450000-in-r-foundation-to-enhance-r-sustainability-and-security/

#rstats #opensource #datascience

@HeidiSeibold pls check your email

reticulate v1.44 is on CRAN!

Positron integration is now enabled by default. Enjoy R and Python REPL consoles powered by concurrent threads in the same process, zero‑copy R↔Python data transfer, and full Variables Pane support.

Full changelog: https://github.com/rstudio/reticulate/blob/main/NEWS.md

#rstats #python #pydata

New blog post! https://kylebarron.dev/blog/fast-python-bindings

This dives into performance pitfalls of Python bindings, why projects like Lonboard are so fast, and why I care about Apache Arrow so much. The post is high level and you don't need to know C/C++/Rust to understand it!

The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026

It's a wrap! With the reports of the workshops (see https://nfdi.social/@nfdi4earth/115253323846531569) and an outlook on the proposal of the next funding phase, the NFDI4Earth Plenary 2025 comes to a close.

We thank our host @MARUM and all participants for the lively discussions and fruitful exchanges.

But it's also a start! 🚀

Now we continue with the joint plenary together with @nfdi4biodiv

#NFDI4Earth #NFDI4EarthPlenary2025