StevenVB12
Please remove dependencies on **rgdal**, **rgeos**, and/or **maptools**
This package depends on (depends, imports or suggests) raster and one or more of the retiring packages rgdal, rgeos or maptools (https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/04/12/evolution.html, https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html). Since raster 3.6.3, all use of external FOSS library functionality has been transferred to terra, making the retiring packages very likely redundant. It would help greatly if you could remove dependencies on the retiring packages as soon as possible.
This package has strong dependence on at least one of rgdal, rgeos or maptools, but does not seem to use any functionality in code. The usage may have been in raster, which now uses terra instead, or may be in examples or vignettes. Please move all use of rgdal, rgeos or maptools to Suggests: and protect any use against these packages not being present. The packages will be archived in October 2023. See https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html and https://rsbivand.github.io/csds_jan23/bivand_csds_ssg_230117.pdf and perhaps view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpjIqTPMCA&list=PLzREt6r1NenmWEidssmLm-VO_YmAh4pq9&index=1.
Please also see https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/04/10/evolution3.html, fix best by June, latest October 2023.
Removing the spurious roxygen tags, and rgdal from DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE, running CMD check in a scenario using sp evolution status 2 (substitute use of rgdal with sf for projection/transformation/CRS) and absence of retiring packages from the library path, passes OK:
@StevenVB12 See also https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html. Please take urgent steps to resolve this issue. No positive changes appear in the repository. Less than three months remain to retain this package on CRAN.
Reply to email 2023-08-14 22:48 CEST:
You haven't committed/pushed to github, so I'm guessing. You need to remove:
R/GMMImage.R:#' @import rgdal R/kImageHSV.R:#' @import rgdal R/kImage.R:#' @import rgdal
because removing from NAMESPACE and DESCRIPTION will be overwritten in running roxygen. This is another reason why roxygen is a very bad idea - doing the grunt work and writing help files, NAMESPACE and DESCRIPTION manually gives much better control. You are being trapped by roxygen. This is a check log run on a fully updated system without rgdal on the library path, with rgdal removed from NAMESPACE and DESCRIPTION but without re-running roxygen:
00check.log