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rgeos (version 0.2-6)
Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source (GEOS)
Description
Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source (GEOS) using
the C API for topology operations on geometries. The GEOS
library is external to the package, and, when installing the
package from source, must be correctly installed first. Windows
binaries are provided on CRAN. Mac Intel OS X binaries are not
provided on CRAN, but can be installed from the CRAN Extras
repository with: setRepositories(ind=1:2);
install.packages('rgeos').