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maptools (version 0.4-3)

tools for reading and handling shapefiles

Description

Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI shapefiles.

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install.packages('maptools')

Monthly Downloads

1,546

Version

0.4-3

License

GPL version 2 or later (R and interface code), MIT (shapelib code)

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Last Published

July 18th, 2023

Functions in maptools (0.4-3)

subset.polylist

Subset polygon list objects
gpcholes

Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
plot.Map

Plot a Map object
Map2poly

Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
plot.polylist

Plot polygons
read.shape

Read shapefile into Map object
get.Pcent

Polygon centroids