Today the package spatstat.core has been replaced by two packages,

• spatstat.explore (containing functions for Exploratory Data Analysis)
• spatstat.model (containing functions for statistical modelling and inference)

Today spatstat 3.0-2 has been uploaded to CRAN where Windows and OSX binaries are also available. You can also download it from the github repository. The main changes are (full release notes here):

• Internal tweaks.

The original spatstat package grew so large that CRAN required us to split it into several smaller packages.

In 2017 we created the sub-packages

• spatstat.utils (containing basic utility functions)
• spatstat.data (containing the datasets)

On 14 December 2020, we divided the remaining code into

• spatstat.geom (containing geometrical objects, geometrical operations, distance measurement)
• spatstat.core (containing the main functionality for statistical analysis and modelling)
• spatstat.linnet (containing functionality for linear networks)
• spatstat (umbrella package containing documentation)

Today spatstat 1.64-2 ‘NICKNAME’ has been uploaded to CRAN where Windows and OSX binaries are also available. You can also download it from the github repository. The main changes are (full release notes here):

• spatstat now depends on the new package ‘spatstat.sparse’.
• spatstat now depends on R version 3.5.0 or later.
• Changed default value of ‘stringsAsFactors’.
• predict.mppm now works for multitype point process models.
• Improved handling of ‘newdata’ in predict.mppm.
• More support for multi-dimensional patterns.
• Bug fixes and minor improvements.