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: 0.8-23
Depends: R (≥ 2.10), foreign (≥ 0.8), sp (≥ 0.9-47), methods, grid, lattice, stats
Suggests: rgeos (≥ 0.1-8), spatstat (≥ 1.18), PBSmapping, RColorBrewer
Enhances: maps, gpclib, RArcInfo
Published: 2013-02-10
Author: Roger Bivand [cre, aut], Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Eric Archer [ctb], Adrian Baddeley [ctb], Hans-Jörg Bibiko [ctb], Jonathan Callahan [ctb], German Carrillo [ctb], Stéphane Dray [ctb], David Forrest [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Patrick Giraudoux [ctb], Duncan Golicher [ctb], Virgilio Gómez Rubio [ctb], Patrick Hausmann [ctb], Karl Ove Hufthammer [ctb], Thomas Jagger [ctb], Sebastian Luque [ctb], Don MacQueen [ctb], Andrew Niccolai [ctb], Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro [ctb], Tom Short [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Ben Stabler [ctb], Murray Stokely [ctb], Rolf Turner [ctb]
Maintainer: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] (see file LICENSE)
URL: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/maptools/
NeedsCompilation: yes
In views: Spatial
CRAN checks: maptools results

Downloads:

Package source: maptools_0.8-23.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: maptools_0.8-23.tgz
Windows binary: maptools_0.8-23.zip
Reference manual: maptools.pdf
News/ChangeLog:ChangeLog
Old sources: maptools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: cshapes, DeducerSpatial, Digiroo2, geospacom, GISTools, GWmodel, lgcp, MapGAM, McSpatial, Nippon, plotGoogleMaps, prevR, pycno, qrfactor, rangeMapper, rCarto, rworldmap, SpatialEpi, spdep, spgwr, SSN, StreamMetabolism, ternvis, UScensus2000blkgrp, UScensus2000cdp, UScensus2000tract, UScensus2010, wild1
Reverse imports: eeptools, gazetools, SciencePo, trip
Reverse suggests: ade4, adehabitatHR, adehabitatHS, adehabitatLT, adehabitatMA, aqp, automap, CARBayes, dismo, dsm, ETAS, ggplot2, GSIF, gstat, Guerry, hydroTSM, move, OpenStreetMap, PBSmapping, plotKML, prabclus, R2BayesX, rgeos, RgoogleMaps, RGraphics, SciencePo, secr, sos4R, spacetime, spatstat, surveillance, taRifx.geo, TeachingDemos, TSP