Package: maptools
Version: 0.8-14
Date: 2012-01-15
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, 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
Maintainer: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no>
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
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: 2012-01-15 13:18:16 UTC; rsb
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2012-01-15 13:44:59
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