Issue 2022-W16 Highlights

An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr)
• R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools
• Error chaining
• Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16

Supplement Resources

• Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement
• Geocomputation with R
• Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data
• Rweekly Highlights episode 72
• Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video
• "Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R