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. It includes data for a global shoreline and other data sets in the public domain.
For a complete user's guide, see the file PBSmapping-UG.pdf
in the R directory .../library/PBSmapping/doc.
PBSmapping includes 10 demos that appear as figures in
the User's Guide. To see them, run the function .PBSfigs().
More generally, a user can view all demos available from locally
installed packages with the function runDemos() in our
related (and recommended) package PBSmodelling.