Package: maptools
Version: 0.7-15
Date: 2008-08-14
Title: Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
Encoding: latin1
Author: Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh and Roger Bivand, contributions by Edzer J. Pebesma, Eric Archer, Stphane Dray, David Forrest, Patrick Giraudoux, Duncan Golicher, Virgilio Gmez Rubio, Patrick Hausmann, Thomas Jagger, Sebastian P. Luque, Don MacQueen, Andrew Niccolai and Tom Short
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. 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.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Packaged: Thu Aug 14 11:11:14 2008; rsb
