So as an update to my R package ptools, I have bumped a major version change to 2.0, which is now up on CRAN.

There is no new functionality, but I wanted to bump versions because I swapped out using rgdal/rgeos with sf (rgdal and rgeos are being deprecated). All the functions currently still take as inputs/output sp objects. If I ever get around to it, I will convert the functions to take either. They are somewhat inefficient with conversions, but if you are doing something where it matters you should likely switch data-engineering to another system entirely (such as via SQL in postgis directly). Generating hexagons should actually be faster now, as the sf version I swapped out is vectorized (whereas how I was using sp prior was a loop).

I debate every now and then just letting this go. I can see on cranlogs I have a total of just over 1k (as of 2/7/2023) downloads, and averaged 200 some last month (grand total, last month).

Time is finite, so I have debated on dropping this and just porting most of the functions over into python. Those cumulative downloads are partially bots (I may have racked up 100 of those downloads in my CICD actions). Let me know if you actually use this, as that gives me feedback whether to bother continuing to develop/update this.