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maptools (version 0.5-8)

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')

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Version

0.5-8

License

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

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Last Published

July 18th, 2023

Functions in maptools (0.5-8)

read.shape

Read shapefile into Map object
plot.polylist

Plot polygons
readShapePoly

Read polygon shape files into SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects
write.polylistShape

Write a polygon-type shapefile
sp2WB

Export SpatialPolygons object as S-Plus map for WinBUGS
dotsInPolys

Put dots in polygons
plot.Map

Plot a Map object (deprecated)
write.linelistShape

Write a arc-type shapefile
readAsciiGrid

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

Write a point-type shapefile
gpcholes

Hisaji Ono's lake/hole problem
subset.polylist

Subset polygon list objects
Map2poly

Create polygon lists and bounding boxes from imported shapefiles
readShapeLines

Read arc shape files into SpatialLinesDataFrame objects
sp2tmap

Convert SpatialPolygons object for Stata tmap command
get.Pcent

Polygon centroids
readShapePoints

Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects
maptools

Report version information and changes
symbolsInPolys

Place grids of points over polygons