Package: maptools
Version: 0.8-23
Date: 2013-02-09
Title: Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
Authors@R: c( person("Roger", "Bivand", role = c("cre", "aut"), email =
"Roger.Bivand@nhh.no"), person("Nicholas", "Lewin-Koh", role =
"aut"), person("Edzer", "Pebesma", role = "ctb"),
person("Eric", "Archer", role = "ctb"), person("Adrian",
"Baddeley", role = "ctb"), person("Hans-Jörg", "Bibiko", role =
"ctb"), person("Jonathan", "Callahan", role = "ctb"),
person("German", "Carrillo", role = "ctb"), person("Stéphane",
"Dray", role = "ctb"), person("David", "Forrest", role =
"ctb"), person("Michael", "Friendly", role = "ctb"),
person("Patrick", "Giraudoux", role = "ctb"), person("Duncan",
"Golicher", role = "ctb"), person("Virgilio", "Gómez Rubio",
role = "ctb"), person("Patrick", "Hausmann", role = "ctb"),
person("Karl Ove", "Hufthammer", role = "ctb"),
person("Thomas", "Jagger", role = "ctb"), person("Sebastian",
"Luque", role = "ctb"), person("Don", "MacQueen", role =
"ctb"), person("Andrew", "Niccolai", role = "ctb"),
person("Oscar", "Perpiñán Lamigueiro", role = "ctb"),
person("Tom", "Short", role = "ctb"), person("Greg", "Snow",
role = "ctb"), person("Ben", "Stabler", role = "ctb"),
person("Murray", "Stokely", role = "ctb"), person("Rolf",
"Turner", role = "ctb"))
Encoding: UTF-8
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
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)
URL: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/maptools/
Packaged: 2013-02-10 14:01:59 UTC; rsb
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@nhh.no>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-02-10 15:42:31