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maptools (version 0.5-2)

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

1,089

Version

0.5-2

License

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

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Last Published

July 18th, 2023

Functions in maptools (0.5-2)

plot.polylist

Plot polygons
get.Pcent

Polygon centroids
write.pointShape

Write a point-type shapefile
readAsciiGrid

read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format
read.shape

Read shapefile into Map object
readShapePoints

Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects
subset.polylist

Subset polygon list objects
readShapeLines

Read arc shape files into SpatialLinesDataFrame objects
symbolsInPolys

Place grids of points over polygons
readShapePoly

Read polygon shape files into SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects
gpcholes

Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
write.polylistShape

Write a polygon-type shapefile
write.linelistShape

Write a arc-type shapefile
Map2poly

Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
maptools

Report version information and changes
dotsInPolys

Put dots in polygons
plot.Map

Plot a Map object