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@RLesur Thanks for looking into this! It's certainly helpful to know the root cause. I'll create an issue on the flexdashboard repo for them to consider this.

I [cross-posted here on RStudio community](https://community.rstudio.com/t/troubleshooting-r-redshift-connection-via-odbc/141183), thinking that may be the best place to ask this.

@hrbrmstr The GSoC proposal is a great description of what I was thinking - did this get submitted? Some other examples of doing things the "new" way would be: -...

@edzer It looks like the sfr proposal has gotten funded. I'm working on mocking up how I wish geospatial data manipulation worked in R.

Start of mockup of how spatial analysis could be if it were possible to work with geometry columns in dataframes: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/geoplyr/blob/master/ideal_mockups.Rmd

@edzer, I don't understand the simple features stuff entirely, but in my optimistic imagination, it could provide the types of simple geometric objects (polygons, points, etc.) that would go into...

@mdsumner You're calling my bluff -- I don't actually have that data ; ) But if it's helpful, I can get it, or something quite similar, fairly easily. If the...

The ability to compare two versions of a gtfs feed from an agency and be shown the differences could be useful -- i.e. to see what changes a transit agency...

@hansthompson Thanks, I'm checking out GTFSr! And thanks for all the information, I am digesting it. It would be great to be able to build on existing stuff.

@hansthompson The list to the gist you provide appears to be broken (or I don't have access?)