diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: rerddapXtracto
 Type: Package
 Title: Extracts Environmental Data from 'ERDDAP' Web Services
-Version: 1.1.6
-Date: 2023-10-07
+Version: 1.1.7
+Date: 2023-10-18
 Authors@R: c(
      person("Roy", "Mendelssohn", email = "roy.mendelssohn@noaa.gov", role = c("aut","cre")),
     person("Marie", "Auger-Methe", role = "ctb")
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ Suggests:
     gganimate,
     knitr,
     mapdata,
-    maptools,
-    rgdal,
     rmarkdown
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# rerddapXtracto 1.1.7
+ 
+removed archived packages maptools and rgdal from Suggests
+
 # rerddapXtracto 1.1.6
 
 Added helper function to convert grid output to "tidy" long-format
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-##  Version 1.1.6
-adds helper function to convert grid output to long-format
+##  Version 1.1.7
+
+removed maptools and rgdal from Suggests
 
 ## Test environments
 * local OS X install, R 4.3.1
diff --git a/vignettes/UsingrerddapXtracto.Rmd b/vignettes/UsingrerddapXtracto.Rmd
index b2e92bb..34699da 100755
--- a/vignettes/UsingrerddapXtracto.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/UsingrerddapXtracto.Rmd
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ library(rerddapXtracto)
 
 ## Introduction 
 
-`rerddapXtracto` is an <span style="color:red">R</span> package developed to subset and extract satellite and other oceanographic related data from any <span style="color:red">ERDDAP</span> server using the <span style="color:red">R</span> package [rerddap](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rerddap) developed by Scott Chamberlain and the wonderful people at [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org). <span style="color:red">ERDDAP</span> is a simple to use yet powerful web data service developed by Bob Simons. `rerddapXtracto` extends the `rerddap` package by allowing a user to extract data for a moving point in time along a user-supplied set of longitude, latitude, depth and time points;  and also extracting data within a polygon (through time). 
+`rerddapXtracto` is an <span style="color:red">R</span> package developed to subset and extract satellite and other oceanographic related data from any <span style="color:red">ERDDAP</span> server using the <span style="color:red">R</span> package [rerddap](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rerddap) developed by Scott Chamberlain and the wonderful people at 'rOpenSci'. <span style="color:red">ERDDAP</span> is a simple to use yet powerful web data service developed by Bob Simons. `rerddapXtracto` extends the `rerddap` package by allowing a user to extract data for a moving point in time along a user-supplied set of longitude, latitude, depth and time points;  and also extracting data within a polygon (through time). 
 
 `rerddapXtracto` version 1.0.0 represented a major rewrite of the internal workings of `rxtracto()`, which were invisible to the user but provided for faster execution particularly for large tracks. Among other improvements. instead of doing an extract for each point, one extract is done for all points that match to the same time period in the ERDDAP dataset.  For large extracts,this can make a very large difference in the speed of execution.  This also means that for extracts that do not have a time coordinate,  such as bathymetric data,  only one extract will be made from ERDDAP.  If the data are of high enough resolution and the data request covers a large enough area, it is possible this will exceed the 2GB limit of ERDDAP netCDF files,  and the extract will have to be done in pieces.