r-spatial
rspatial github organization repo
Dear all, given that we need a repository for a new package for interactive feature editing and maybe other general packages in the future, I wonder if it would be a good idea to set up a "rspatial" organization github repository?
We could, as a first step, move this repo to the .io pages there and then start collaborative package development around the spatial universe from there. rOpenSci seems to be an extremely successful model for collaborative open source development. Something similar could also work for focused spatial package development.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Tim
I've been thinking along similar lines to set up an organisation called r-spatial (rather than rspatial), but didn't as I felt short in answering the for what and for whom questions. I could move around 10 repos there, but to what effect?
It might help from a 'new to r spatial'-user perspective to get a concise overview of what is available. Especially when providing a structured overview in some r-spatial.github.io 'start page'. Also, I think that having a central repo might help identifying gaps and/or opportunities for all developers involved.
Most importantly, though, I feel that an r-spatial (I am more than happy with the dash :-) ) organisation would foster closer collaboration as there is more direct involvement of people with different skills (e.g. C++, JavaScript, ...) which would help overcome some 'invisible' issues (e.g. opening an issue would ideally trigger responses/solutions from a potentially larger group than with individual repositories).
I am curious how others feel about this?
for what
Having just discovered leaflet.extras thanks to this thread, I would say: for initiating newbies like me to the wide array of spectacularly good R packages that can manipulate and visualise spatial data.
Thanks Edzer!
I believe that you initiating this is a good move. One thing to make sure is a widely visible link to CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data as this is still by far the best and most comprehensive collection of all that is available for spatial R.
Thanks @edzer! Could you or @tim-salabim add members of this repo to that org ? I didn't find a way to self add.
@bhaskarvk done; @tim-salabim yes, I suggest to do that the moment there is sth somewhat substantial growing here.
I'm going to take a first stab at setting up that website using http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/rmarkdown_websites.html, unless there are any objections.
no objections from me, I guess I will learn quite something if you do :-)
OK no worries, I just pushed the website, but make sure to change the settings to serve the website from 'docs' directory. I can't do that w/o admin rights. I chose to put the generated site under 'docs' to separate Rmds from HTMLs.
OK I pushed everything under root then. It's still showing up old index.html, I suspect it takes some time to invalidate the cache. Or may be that has to be done manually.
I'm fine keeping Rmd and HTMLs together, for now that's what I've done. Just need the caches to invalidate.
Now that it is official, I think it is time for a logo - maybe a map + the R logo. Anyone creative out there?
Just jumping on the bandwagon. This has potential to be a great resource as many of the R-spatial resources are widely dispersed. This r-spatial org will need to be careful not to be just another one of those many sites. Don't know that I have any brilliant ideas to prevent that.
And @tim-salabim in https://github.com/tim-salabim/rspatial/issues/9#issue-200392492 you mentioned rOpenSci. Are you envisioning something similar to their group of "official" packages that have gone through a review process?
@tim-salabim @edzer @bhaskarvk now we need a charter and some guidelines on what belongs here :) Is this a pre-CRAN staging platform, attracting oversight/discussion on best practices, advice on overlap with existing pkgs, and general visibility to r-spatial tragics? I do think there is a gap in resources for developers, so using this for putting tips, tricks, FAQ and in-progress problem solving would be good.
@timelyportfolio I hacked the R logo here which might be useful for ideas.
https://github.com/r-gris/org-logo/blob/master/README.md
I love the triangulation. Perhaps we could add a map background or some graticules?
It is NC code so probably not appropriate here, I'll check the rules, oh wait . . .
;)
@jhollist I am envisioning an open source collaboration for spatial analysis in R, not more, not less. How that will pan out I am not sure, but I don't wanna inflict any sort of rules. Also I am not thinking of any official packages. I hope that with a collaborative effort we can be smart enough to figure out a best practice (i.e. collection of packages) for spatial analysis needs.
I like the https://github.com/r-spatial logo, though I find it a bit complex. If a new logo were in order, I'd suggest something simpler, like so:
Ha! I do like the graticule in the R halo (or whatever that is called).