Re: pkg/51607 (math/R-ncdf has been removed upstream)

[Kai-Uwe Eckhardt <kuehro%posteo.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51607; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kai-Uwe Eckhardt <kuehro%posteo.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51607 (math/R-ncdf has been removed upstream)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:38:06 +0200

 > I'm not familiar with the R landscape. Does this mean that we should
 > remove R-ncdf and R-NetCDF?
 
 Yes, ncdf has been removed upstream and maya already created R-RNetCDF 
 for its successor. There is also ncdf4, with support for more modern 
 NetCDF formats. I no longer use pkgsrc, but in my opinion this PR can be 
 closed after removing R-ncdf.
 
 Kai-Uwe