Edzer Pebesma

Thanks to everyone that replied to this, we submitted our response last week: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet....

You can view all responses, including several from other foundations supporting OSS projects (full comments are often in a download).

Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2...

dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

#rstats ANNOUNCE: The ASA John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award to
Harriet Mason (Monash Univ)
For ggdibbler, an R graphics (ggplot2 add-on) package that enables rich visualization of uncertainty across raster, contour, stack, and spatial plots.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

Interested in satellite image time series? version 1.5.4 of the open source SITS package is available on CRAN and conda-forge. An end-to-end solution for LUCC mapping of big Earth observation, with APIs in R and Python. Online book available (e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook/)

Excerpt with a table from the Initial Editorial Assessment Document linked in the subsequent post.

At R2, we take both quality assessment and transparency seriously. This is why we do not only publish peer review reports and reproducibility certificates for all articles but also conduct thorough initial checks. They are done by the EiC and an editorial assisstant before peer review.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

CRAN updates: laminr LLMTranslate lwgeom mapgl #rstats

CRAN updates: m61r sf statpsych #rstats

The Geography of the Labour Force Composition in the Netherlands by Ate Poorthuis (doi.org/10.1111/tesg...). One of the best uses of the centered ternary balance scheme (www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...) I've seen so far. Build with tricolore github.com/jschoeley/tr... @ikashnitsky.phd

📙An interesting paper on spatial data science languages

We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems.

URL: doi.org/10.5311/JOSI...

#SpatialDataScience #GISchat #OpenSource #RSpatial #GeoPython #JuliaGeo

"GeoJSON specification prescribes to handle all geodetic coordinates as Cartesian in the rectangle bound by POINT(x=−180 y=−90) and POINT(x= 180 y= 90)...and one wonders how many users of GeoJSON are aware of these explicit intentions."

I was not aware of these explicit intentions 🤔

Open Earth Observation and fediverse-type systems as a basis for innovation, competitiveness… Authors: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub foundation), Gregory Duveiller (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Johannes Reiche (Wageningen…

After 3.5 yrs of the @openearthmonitor.bsky.social project, 4 global workshops and several summer schools, we have produced this summary report aiming at both researchers and policy makers at EU and national scales:
medium.com/@opengeohub/...
Join the final event: earthmonitor.org/global-work-...

Has anyone out there run geodesic regression in #rstats? #gischat

Werner Kuhn's farewell lecture, Nov 12, 2013

At #AGU25 and concerned about news of NCAR dismantling?

Join us today 4pm CT. We'll cover independent science action and discuss the key science functions we need the government for--like the critical functions that NCAR provides on weather and climate research.
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

Save NCAR from being dismantled today! The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

I wrote to my representatives @hirono.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social, and Ed Case to tell them to stop the dismantlement of NCAR. You can do the same with your representatives at this link.

On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation.

MS is nothing but full of a greedy bunch of sociopathic SOBs.

Excited to announce SedonaDB 0.2.0! Highlights include reading spatial file formats via GDAL/OGR, improved GeoParquet IO, Python @arrow.apache.org UDFs, and 40+ additional functions.

Implement QgsArrowIterator to iterate over features as batches of ArrowArray by paleolimbot · Pull Request #63749 · qgis/QGIS Description As encouraged by @nyalldawson! https://mastodon.social/@nyalld/115459416976982489 The motivation is to eliminate the need for per-feature iteration in Python to maintain the fidelity of...

Wohoo, QGIS Arrow support has been merged: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63749

Thanks @paleolimbot & @nyalld et al.

Looking forward to testing it out soon 🤩

#QGIS #Arrow #GISChat

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Featured image with title "Create custom GPS route maps in R" and an image of a poster with a white running route against a blue background.

🗺️ Back with another map-making blog post! 🗺️

Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅

Link in comments 👇👇

#ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial

🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)!

I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability.

More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...

#RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial

OGC creates more friction than it resolves.

The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍

> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial

#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat

Starting in 30 min

su.bmc.nu/Modules/Even...

today our postdoc @schwalb-willmann.de will talk at the GI forum in Münster about the power of #animaltracking data for innovative #earthobservation information @edzer.bsky.social @jakubnowosad.com Hanna Meyer - thanks for the invite!

R version 4.5.2 "[Not] Part in a Rumble" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)