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maptools (version 0.4-7)

tools for reading and handling shapefiles

Description

Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI shapefiles; C code used from shapelib.

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install.packages('maptools')

Monthly Downloads

1,594

Version

0.4-7

License

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

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Last Published

July 18th, 2023

Functions in maptools (0.4-7)

plot.Map

Plot a Map object
write.pointShape

Write a point-type shapefile
plot.polylist

Plot polygons
dbf.read

Read DBF a file
get.Pcent

Polygon centroids
gpcholes

Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
dbf.write

Write a DBF file
write.polylistShape

Write a polygon-type shapefile
dotsInPolys

Put dots in polygons
read.shape

Read shapefile into Map object
subset.polylist

Subset polygon list objects
maptools

Report version information and changes
Map2poly

Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
symbolsInPolys

Place grids of points over polygons