[R-pkgs] Retirement/archiving of rgdal, rgeos and maptools October 2023

[Roger Bivand]

The third report on the R-spatial evolution project has been published.

https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/04/10/evolution3.html

It links back to earlier blogs and presentations, and focuses on work that 
maintainers of R packages and workflows using rgdal, rgeos and maptools 
need to put in train now before the packages are archived on CRAN.

The first changes will occur in June 2023, and the retiring packages will 
be archived during October 2023. If you are giving a workshop or tutorial 
during the Northern hemisphere summer, aim for June.

If you still need more assistance after reading the project materials, 
raise an issue on https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution/issues or email 
me (issue better, less likely to be overlooked).

-- 
Roger Bivand
Emeritus Professor
Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
Postboks 3490 Ytre Sandviken, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
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