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@@ -28,6 +27,26 @@ Central Pacific data (140&deg;W to 180&deg;W) is included if issued by the [Nati
 
 This library parses the text advisories of all tropical cyclones since 1998. Over the years the formats of the text products have changed and many are loosely formatted. 
 
+## Current Status of rrricanes
+
+rrcanes is not currently on CRAN. A group of people 
+(who welcome others to join us) are working 
+on updating the package and get it back into shape
+for submission to CRAN.  Because it has been
+a while we are taking the opportunity to do 
+some updating and refactoring.  Specifically
+we are working to get the package working with
+the recent [https://r-spatial.org/](changes in
+the R spatial ecosystem). When possible we 
+are also shifting to more modern APIs for 
+accessing the data when they are available.
+
+Please report any issues and share ideas in the 
+issue tracker and code with pull requests.
+
+
+## Package background
+
 I wrote this package with the goal of consolidating messy text data into well-organized formats that can easily be saved to CSV, SQL and other data formats. 
 
 ## Advisory Products
@@ -68,13 +87,15 @@ vignette("getting_started", package = "rrricanes")
 
 Linux users must also have the `libgdal-dev`, `libproj-dev` and `libxml2-dev` packages installed.
 
+
 To add `rrricanesdata`, a [package of post-scraped datasets](https://github.com/ropensci/rrricanesdata), 
 
 ```r
 install.packages("rrricanesdata", 
                  repos = "https://timtrice.github.io/drat/", 
                  type = "source")
 ```
+However this package is not currently maintained.
 
 To use high resolution tracking maps you will need to install the `rnaturalearthhires` package. 
 
@@ -94,7 +115,10 @@ devtools::install_github("ropensci/rrricanes", build_vignettes = TRUE)
 
 ## Built With
 
-* [R 3.3.3](https://www.r-project.org/) - The R Project for Statistical Computing
+* [R 4.1](https://www.r-project.org/) - The R Project for Statistical Computing
+
+New minimum versions for a number of dependencies  have been establised. 
+This provides opportunity to build on newer features of the packages 
 
 ## Contributing
 

README.md

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@@ -32,6 +31,22 @@ This library parses the text advisories of all tropical cyclones since
 1998. Over the years the formats of the text products have changed and
 many are loosely formatted.
 
+## Current Status of rrricanes
+
+rrcanes is not currently on CRAN. A group of people (who welcome others
+to join us) are working on updating the package and get it back into
+shape for submission to CRAN. Because it has been a while we are taking
+the opportunity to do some updating and refactoring. Specifically we are
+working to get the package working with the recent
+[https://r-spatial.org/](changes%20in%20the%20R%20spatial%20ecosystem).
+When possible we are also shifting to more modern APIs for accessing the
+data when they are available.
+
+Please report any issues and share ideas in the issue tracker and code
+with pull requests.
+
+## Package background
+
 I wrote this package with the goal of consolidating messy text data into
 well-organized formats that can easily be saved to CSV, SQL and other
 data formats.
@@ -110,6 +125,8 @@ install.packages("rrricanesdata",
                  type = "source")
 ```
 
+However this package is not currently maintained.
+
 To use high resolution tracking maps you will need to install the
 `rnaturalearthhires` package.
 
@@ -130,8 +147,11 @@ devtools::install_github("ropensci/rrricanes", build_vignettes = TRUE)
 
 ## Built With
 
--   [R 3.3.3](https://www.r-project.org/) - The R Project for
-    Statistical Computing
+-   [R 4.1](https://www.r-project.org/) - The R Project for Statistical
+    Computing
+
+New minimum versions for a number of dependencies have been establised.
+This provides opportunity to build on newer features of the packages
 
 ## Contributing