An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools Error chaining Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16 Supplement Resources Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement Geocomputation with R Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data Rweekly Highlights episode 72 Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video "Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R