Package: maptools
Version: 0.6-8
Date: 2007-02-01
Title: Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
Author: Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh and Roger Bivand, contributions by Edzer J. Pebesma, Patrick Hausmann, Virgilio Gmez Rubio, Thomas Jagger, Sebastian P. Luque, Duncan Golicher and David Forrest
Maintainer: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no>
Depends: R (>= 2.4), foreign (>= 0.8), sp (>= 0.9-7), methods
Suggests: spatstat, PBSmapping, maps, gpclib, RArcInfo
Description: Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI shapefiles; C code used from shapelib. The package also provides interface wrappers for exchanging spatial objects with packages such as PBSmapping, spatstat, maps, RArcInfo, Stata tmap, WinBUGS, Mondrian, and others.
License: GPL version 2 or later (R and interface code), MIT (shapelib code)
Packaged: Thu Feb  1 15:27:05 2007; rsb
