maptools v0.5-14

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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
sp2Mondrian	write map data for Mondrian
get.Pcent	Polygon centroids
gzAzimuth	Find azimuth for geographical coordinates
readAsciiGrid	read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format
Map2poly	Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
read.shape	Read shapefile into Map object
subset.polylist	Subset polygon list objects
sp2WB	Export SpatialPolygons object as S-Plus map for WinBUGS
dotsInPolys	Put dots in polygons
maptools	Report version information and changes
readShapePoints	Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects
write.linelistShape	Write a arc-type shapefile
write.pointShape	Write a point-type shapefile
symbolsInPolys	Place grids of points over polygons
readShapeLines	Read arc shape files into SpatialLinesDataFrame objects
gpcholes	Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
plot.Map	Plot a Map object (deprecated)
write.polylistShape	Write a polygon-type shapefile
sp2tmap	Convert SpatialPolygons object for Stata tmap command
readShapePoly	Read polygon shape files into SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects
plot.polylist	Plot polygons
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Date	2006-08-30
License	GPL version 2 or later (R and interface code), MIT (shapelib code)
Packaged	Wed Aug 30 13:04:10 2006; rsb

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