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maptools (version 1.1-8)

Tools for Handling Spatial Objects

Description

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.

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install.packages('maptools')

Monthly Downloads

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Version

1.1-8

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Roger Bivand

Last Published

July 18th, 2023

Functions in maptools (1.1-8)

nowrapRecenter

Break polygons at meridian for recentering
checkPolygonsHoles

Check holes in Polygons objects
gzAzimuth

Find azimuth for geographical coordinates
gcDestination

Find destination in geographical coordinates
wrld_simpl

Simplified world country polygons
nearestPointOnSegment

Get the nearest point on a segment to a given point
sp2tmap

Convert SpatialPolygons object for Stata tmap command
unionSpatialPolygons

Aggregate Polygons in a SpatialPolygons object
snapPointsToLines

Snap a set of points to a set of lines
readGPS

GPSbabel read interface
ppp-class

Virtual class "ppp"
dotsInPolys

Put dots in polygons
thinnedSpatialPoly

Douglas-Peuker line generalization for Spatial Polygons
map2SpatialPolygons

Convert map objects to sp classes
symbolsInPolys

Place grids of points over polygons
state.vbm

US State Visibility Based Map
spCbind-methods

cbind for spatial objects
nearestPointOnLine

Get the nearest point on a line to a given point
readSplus

Read exported WinBUGS maps
readAsciiGrid

read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format
maptools-deprecated

Deprecated functions and methods
pal2SpatialPolygons

Making SpatialPolygons objects from RArcInfo input
leglabs

Make legend labels
nowrapSpatialLines

Split SpatialLines components at offset
SpatialLines2PolySet

Convert sp line and polygon objects to PBSmapping PolySet objects
CCmaps

Conditioned choropleth maps
SpatialLinesMidPoints

Line midpoints
as.im

Coercion between sp objects and spatstat im objects
as.SpatialPolygons.tess

Coercion of spatstat tess object to sp SpatialPolygons object
as.owin

Coercion between sp objects and spatstat owin objects
SplashDams

Data for Splash Dams in western Oregon
sp2Mondrian

write map data for Mondrian
as.ppp

Coercion between sp objects and spatstat ppp objects
ContourLines2SLDF

Converter functions to build SpatialLinesDataFrame objects
as.linnet.SpatialLines

Convert SpatialLines to Linear Network
sp2WB

Export SpatialPolygons object as S-Plus map for WinBUGS
spRbind-methods

rbind for spatial objects
as.psp

Coercion between sp objects and spatstat psp objects