What does the R-package 'maptools' do?

Tools for Handling Spatial Objects

Who authored maptools?

Roger Bivand, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Edzer Pebesma, Eric Archer, Adrian Baddeley, Nick Bearman, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Steven Brey, Jonathan Callahan, German Carrillo, Stéphane Dray, David Forrest, Michael Friendly, Patrick Giraudoux, Duncan Golicher, Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Patrick Hausmann, Karl Ove Hufthammer, Thomas Jagger, Kent Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Sebastian Luque, Don MacQueen, Andrew Niccolai, Edzer Pebesma, Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro, Ethan Plunkett, Ege Rubak, Tom Short, Greg Snow, Ben Stabler, Murray Stokely, Rolf Turner

CRAN/E | maptools

Installation

About

Please note that 'maptools' will be retired during October 2023, plan transition at your earliest convenience (see and earlier blogs for guidance); some functionality will be moved to 'sp'. Set of tools for manipulating geographic data. The package also provides interface wrappers for exchanging spatial objects with packages such as 'PBSmapping', 'spatstat.geom', 'maps', and others.

maptools.r-forge.r-project.org/
r-forge.r-project.org/projects/maptools/

Key Metrics

Version	1.1-8
R	≥ 2.10
Published	2023-07-18 282 days ago
Needs compilation?	yes
License	GPL-2
License	GPL-3
CRAN checks	maptools results

Downloads

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Last 7 days	333 -99%
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Last 365 days	549.897 -78%

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Roger.Bivand@nhh.no

Authors

Roger Bivand	cre / aut
Nicholas Lewin-Koh	aut
Edzer Pebesma	ctb
Eric Archer	ctb
Adrian Baddeley	ctb
Nick Bearman	ctb
Hans-Jörg Bibiko	ctb
Steven Brey	ctb
Jonathan Callahan	ctb
German Carrillo	ctb
Stéphane Dray	ctb
David Forrest	ctb
Michael Friendly	ctb
Patrick Giraudoux	ctb
Duncan Golicher	ctb
Virgilio Gómez Rubio	ctb
Patrick Hausmann	ctb
Karl Ove Hufthammer	ctb
Thomas Jagger	ctb
Kent Johnson	ctb
Matthew Lewis	ctb
Sebastian Luque	ctb
Don MacQueen	ctb
Andrew Niccolai	ctb
Edzer Pebesma	ctb
Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro	ctb
Ethan Plunkett	ctb
Ege Rubak	ctb
Tom Short	ctb
Greg Snow	ctb
Ben Stabler	ctb
Murray Stokely	ctb
Rolf Turner	ctb

Material

NEWS
ChangeLog
Reference manual
Package source

Vignettes

Combining Spatial Data

macOS

r-release	arm64
r-oldrel	arm64
r-release	x86_64
r-oldrel	x86_64

Windows

r-devel	x86_64
r-release	x86_64
r-oldrel	x86_64

Old Sources

maptools archive

Depends

R	≥ 2.10
sp	≥ 1.0-11

Imports

foreign	≥ 0.8
methods
grid
lattice
stats
utils
grDevices

Suggests

rgeos	≥ 0.1-8
spatstat.geom	≥ 1.65-0
PBSmapping
maps
RColorBrewer
raster
polyclip
plotrix
spatstat.linnet	≥ 1.65-3
spatstat.utils	≥ 1.19.0
spatstat	≥ 2.0-0

Reverse Depends

animalEKF
itcSegment
monographaR
pycno
StreamMetabolism
UScensus2010
Watersheds

Reverse Imports

animaltracker
APfun
biogeo
birdscanR
bRacatus
cartograflow
cmsaf
disaggregation
ecospat
EMbC
EnvExpInd
FLightR
gDefrag
geodetector
GEOexplorer
ggsn
gwer
hydroTSM
hyfo
iSDM
LabourMarketAreas
letsR
lgcp
micromapST
oceanmap
PWFSLSmoke
RchivalTag
red
rmapzen
rworldmap
SAEforest
SeerMapper
shp2graph
SSN
STMedianPolish

Reverse Suggests

eechidna
emdi
eSDM
gamlss.spatial
geneHapR
GeoAdjust
geodiv
ggformula
ggplot2
GpGp
ie2miscdata
IsoriX
knitrBootstrap
leri
mosaic
naturaList
opensensmapr
OpenStreetMap
overlap
PBSmapping
plotdap
plotKML
plotly
prabclus
prettymapr
rerddapXtracto
rgdal
rgeos
RgoogleMaps
rioja
riverplot
saeTrafo
SDMPlay
sp
spatstat.explore
spatstat.geom
spatstat.model
stelfi
subniche
synoptReg
TeachingDemos