Tools for reading and handling spatial objects CRAN Task View: Spatial (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial) Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI shapefiles; C code used from shapelib. It includes binary access to GSHHS shoreline files. The package also provides interface wrappers for exchanging spatial objects with packages such as PBSmapping, spatstat, maps, RArcInfo, Stata tmap, WinBUGS, Mondrian, and others. Software Depends: R (>= 2.10), foreign (>= 0.8), sp (>= 0.9-47), methods, lattice Suggests: spatstat (>= 1.18), PBSmapping, maps, rgeos (>= 0.1-8), gpclib, RArcInfo Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no> Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh and Roger Bivand, contributions by Edzer J. Pebesma, Eric Archer, Adrian Baddeley, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Jonathan Callahan, Stéphane Dray, David Forrest, Michael Friendly, Patrick Giraudoux, Duncan Golicher, Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Patrick Hausmann, Karl Ove Hufthammer, Thomas Jagger, Sebastian P. Luque, Don MacQueen, Andrew Niccolai, Tom Short, Greg Snow, Ben Stabler and Rolf Turner GPL (>= 2) 2012-01-15 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=maptools