maptools v0.5-12

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by Roger Bivand

tools for reading and handling shapefiles

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

Name	Description
get.Pcent	Polygon centroids
readAsciiGrid	read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format
Map2poly	Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
maptools	Report version information and changes
read.shape	Read shapefile into Map object
plot.Map	Plot a Map object (deprecated)
subset.polylist	Subset polygon list objects
readShapeLines	Read arc shape files into SpatialLinesDataFrame objects
readShapePoly	Read polygon shape files into SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects
gzAzimuth	Find azimuth for geographical coordinates
readShapePoints	Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects
dotsInPolys	Put dots in polygons
sp2WB	Export SpatialPolygons object as S-Plus map for WinBUGS
gpcholes	Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
plot.polylist	Plot polygons
write.pointShape	Write a point-type shapefile
write.polylistShape	Write a polygon-type shapefile
write.linelistShape	Write a arc-type shapefile
sp2tmap	Convert SpatialPolygons object for Stata tmap command
symbolsInPolys	Place grids of points over polygons
sp2Mondrian	write map data for Mondrian
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Date	2006-04-30
License	GPL version 2 or later (R and interface code), MIT (shapelib code)
Packaged	Sun Apr 30 19:48:37 2006; rsb

depends	base (>= 2.1) , foreign (>= 0.8) , R (>= 2.1) , sp (>= 0.8-7)
Contributors	Roger Bivand, Nicholas Lewin-Koh