maptools v0.5-4
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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.
Functions in maptools
| Name | Description | |
| read.shape | Read shapefile into Map object | |
| readShapeLines | Read arc shape files into SpatialLinesDataFrame objects | |
| Map2poly | Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles | |
| gpcholes | Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem | |
| readAsciiGrid | read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format | |
| readShapePoly | Read polygon shape files into SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects | |
| write.linelistShape | Write a arc-type shapefile | |
| write.pointShape | Write a point-type shapefile | |
| sp2WB | Export SpatialPolygons object as S-Plus map for WinBUGS | |
| subset.polylist | Subset polygon list objects | |
| maptools | Report version information and changes | |
| get.Pcent | Polygon centroids | |
| plot.Map | Plot a Map object | |
| dotsInPolys | Put dots in polygons | |
| symbolsInPolys | Place grids of points over polygons | |
| write.polylistShape | Write a polygon-type shapefile | |
| readShapePoints | Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects | |
| plot.polylist | Plot polygons | |
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| Date | 2005-12-13 |
| License | GPL version 2 or later (R and interface code), MIT (shapelib code) |
| Packaged | Thu Dec 15 19:35:12 2005; rsb |
| depends | base (>= 2.1) , foreign (>= 0.8) , R (>= 2.1) , sp (>= 0.8-7) |
| Contributors | Roger Bivand, Nicholas Lewin-Koh |
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