Jon T. Schnute <schnutej-dfo@shaw.ca>, Nicholas Boers
<boersn@macewan.ca>, Rowan Haigh <rowan.haigh@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>,
Chris Grandin <chris.grandin@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>, Angus Johnson,
Paul Wessel, Franklin Antonio
This software has evolved from fisheries research
conducted at the Pacific Biological Station (PBS) in Nanaimo,
British Columbia, Canada. It extends the R language to include
two-dimensional plotting features similar to those commonly
available in a Geographic Information System (GIS).  Embedded C
code speeds algorithms from computational geometry, such as
finding polygons that contain specified point events or
converting between longitude-latitude and Universal Transverse
Mercator (UTM) coordinates.  Additionally, we include C++ code
developed by Angus Johnson for the Clipper library.  PBSmapping
also includes data for a global shoreline and other data sets
in the public domain.  The R directory
'.../library/PBSmapping/doc' offers a complete user's guide
PBSmapping-UG.pdf, which should be consulted to use all
functions in the package effectively.

Jon T. Schnute <schnutej-dfo@shaw.ca>,
Nicholas Boers <boersn@macewan.ca>,
Rowan Haigh <rowan.haigh@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>,
Chris Grandin <chris.grandin@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>,
Angus Johnson, Paul Wessel, Franklin Antonio
This software has evolved from fisheries research conducted at the
Pacific Biological Station (PBS) in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It
extends the R language to include two-dimensional plotting features similar
to those commonly available in a Geographic Information System (GIS).
Embedded C code speeds algorithms from computational geometry, such as
finding polygons that contain specified point events or converting between
longitude-latitude and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates.
Additionally, we include C++ code developed by Angus Johnson for the Clipper
library.  PBSmapping also includes data for a global shoreline and other
data sets in the public domain.
The R directory '.../library/PBSmapping/doc' offers a complete user's
guide PBSmapping-UG.pdf, which should be consulted to use all functions in
the package effectively.