Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh and Roger Bivand, contributions by Edzer
J. Pebesma, Eric Archer, Adrian Baddeley, Hans-Jörg Bibiko,
Stéphane Dray, David Forrest, Michael Friendly, Patrick
Giraudoux, Duncan Golicher, Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Patrick
Hausmann, Thomas Jagger, Sebastian P. Luque, Don MacQueen,
Andrew Niccolai, Tom Short and Ben Stabler
spatstat, PBSmapping, maps, gpclib, RArcInfo
Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data,
in particular ESRI shapefiles; C code used from shapelib. It
includes binary access to GSHHS shoreline files. The package
also provides interface wrappers for exchanging spatial objects
with packages such as PBSmapping, spatstat, maps, RArcInfo,
Stata tmap, WinBUGS, Mondrian, and others.