Tools for reading and handling spatial objects
c(
	person("Roger", "Bivand", role = c("cre", "aut"), email = "Roger.Bivand@nhh.no"),
	person("Nicholas", "Lewin-Koh", role = "aut"),
	person("Edzer", "Pebesma", role = "ctb"),
	person("Eric", "Archer", role = "ctb"),
	person("Adrian", "Baddeley", role = "ctb"),
	person("Hans-Jörg", "Bibiko", role = "ctb"),
	person("Steven", "Brey", role = "ctb"),
	person("Jonathan", "Callahan", role = "ctb"),
	person("German", "Carrillo", role = "ctb"),
	person("Stéphane", "Dray", role = "ctb"),
	person("David", "Forrest", role = "ctb"),
	person("Michael", "Friendly", role = "ctb"),
	person("Patrick", "Giraudoux", role = "ctb"),
	person("Duncan", "Golicher", role = "ctb"),
	person("Virgilio", "Gómez Rubio", role = "ctb"),
	person("Patrick", "Hausmann", role = "ctb"),
	person("Karl Ove", "Hufthammer", role = "ctb"),
	person("Thomas", "Jagger", role = "ctb"),
	person("Sebastian", "Luque", role = "ctb"),
	person("Don", "MacQueen", role = "ctb"),
	person("Andrew", "Niccolai", role = "ctb"),
	person("Oscar", "Perpiñán Lamigueiro", role = "ctb"),
	person("Tom", "Short", role = "ctb"),
	person("Greg", "Snow", role = "ctb"),
	person("Ben", "Stabler", role = "ctb"),
	person("Murray", "Stokely", role = "ctb"),
	person("Rolf", "Turner", role = "ctb"))
foreign (>= 0.8), methods, grid, lattice, stats
rgeos (>= 0.1-8), spatstat (>= 1.18), PBSmapping,
RColorBrewer
Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI shapefiles; C code used from shapelib. It includes binary access to GSHHG 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.
Roger Bivand [cre, aut],
  Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut],
  Edzer Pebesma [ctb],
  Eric Archer [ctb],
  Adrian Baddeley [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],
  Sebastian Luque [ctb],
  Don MacQueen [ctb],
  Andrew Niccolai [ctb],
  Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro [ctb],
  Tom Short [ctb],
  Greg Snow [ctb],
  Ben Stabler [ctb],
  Murray Stokely [ctb],
  Rolf Turner [ctb]