maptools: Tools for reading and handling spatial objects

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.

Version: 0.7-16
Depends: R (≥ 2.4), foreign (≥ 0.8), sp (≥ 0.9-7), methods
Suggests: spatstat, PBSmapping, maps, gpclib, RArcInfo
Date: 2008-11-12
Author: Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh and Roger Bivand, contributions by Edzer J. Pebesma, Eric Archer, Adrian Baddeley, Stéphane Dray, David Forrest, Patrick Giraudoux, Duncan Golicher, Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Patrick Hausmann, Thomas Jagger, Sebastian P. Luque, Don MacQueen, Andrew Niccolai and Tom Short
Maintainer: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
License: GPL (≥ 2)
In views: Spatial
CRAN checks: maptools results

Downloads:

Package source: maptools_0.7-16.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: maptools_0.7-16.tgz
Windows binary: maptools_0.7-16.zip
Reference manual: maptools.pdf
News/ChangeLog:ChangeLog
Old sources: maptools archive