News and developments with regard to the retirement of R packages rgdal, rgeos and maptools (scheduled 2023) is found in the following blog post: https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html Follow-up questions can be directed to Roger or me, or to this list, or raised as issues on https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution Many regards,
Edzer Pebesma Institute for Geoinformatics Heisenbergstrasse 2, 48151 Muenster, Germany Phone: +49 251 8333081