Package: maptools
Version: 0.6-18
Date: 2007-10-23
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 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. 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: Tue Oct 23 15:02:39 2007; rsb
