Bug#515646: ITP: r-cran-maptools -- GNU R Tools for reading and handling spatial objects

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>

* Package name    : r-cran-maptools
  Version         : 0.7.16
  Upstream Author : Nicholas J. Lewin-Koh, Roger Bivand, and others
* URL             : http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/
* License         : GPL2+
  Programming Lang: R
  Description     : GNU R Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
 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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)