Please remove dependencies on **rgdal**, **rgeos**, and/or **maptools**

[rsbivand]

This package depends on (depends, imports or suggests) raster and one or more of the retiring packages rgdal, rgeos or maptools (https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/04/12/evolution.html, https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/12/14/evolution2.html). Since raster 3.6.3, all use of external FOSS library functionality has been transferred to terra, making the retiring packages very likely redundant. It would help greatly if you could remove dependencies on the retiring packages as soon as possible.

[rsbivand]

@stevenbedrick @16EAGLE rgdal was archived yesterday, so please do move to submit an updated version of basemaps as soon as possible. See https://github.com/r-spatial/evolution https://r-spatial.github.io/evolution/ for details.

[16EAGLE]

Thanks, rgdal has been removed from basemaps.