As previously announced, maptools, rgdal, rgeos and rgrass7 have been archived by CRAN at my request. Some turbulence may be expected as about 80 packages with remaining strong dependencies on the archived packages also are archived. I'm very grateful to many maintainers who have responded to requests to update in time., #rspatial see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2023-October/029350.html