We'd like to announce the initial CRAN release of 'rpostgis' (v1.0.0), which facilitates transfer between PostGIS "Geometry" objects (stored in PostgreSQL databases) and R spatial objects. The package also contains a variety of convenience functions which are supplemental to the excellent 'RPostgreSQL' package for interfacing with a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. To install the package: install.packages("rpostgis") The package main development area can be found on GitHub; any bugs, issues, or feature requests can be submitted through the "issues" page there: https://github.com/mablab/rpostgis David [[alternative HTML version deleted]]